LIGHT BENT BACKWARD, WAITING TO BE FORGOTTEN

This is an exhibition about what becomes invisible, elusive, unfixable — about materials susceptible to decay. About structures that seem clear at first glance but conceal duality — violence and ideology.

In the practice of Nabil Aniss, light is less a visual phenomenon and more an inner energy that arises through sound, movement, trance, and self-harm. Aniss engages with the history of oppression and mysticism as acts of liberation.
Céline Struger works within a space where the organic and the artificial, the material and the fluid, interact in an eternal cycle of transformations. Her sculptures and installations are traces of processes that have already begun and are yet to be completed.

In her practice, Sofiia Yesakova uses visual strategies that deliberately conceal emotional content within strict minimalist forms, prompting viewers to search for and carefully consider hidden meanings. Her works point to how a “pure” visual language can mask the violence of systems and ideologies.

Across all three artistic positions, light is something that no longer strives toward th e center. It slips away.
 
text: Sofiia Yesakova

FC: Independent Space Index Vienna

LIGHT BENT BACKWARD, 
WAITING TO BE FORGOTTEN

with Nabil Aniss, Céline Struger Sofiia Yesakova
at
arka arka
Stammgasse 11, 1070 Vienna 
curated by Anzhelika Palvydova

opening: 29.5. 2025 6–10 PM
30.5.2025 – 11.6.2025
Th, Fr., Sat.