What emerges from the alliance between magical formulas and factual prognoses, between a scientific mode of observation and mythical narratives? The title of the exhibition is borrowed from the artistic and literary movement of magical realism, which was characterised by its combination of a realistic narrative with images touching upon so-called ‘irrational’ worlds, magic, the dreamlike and myth. Through this porosity, different relations with reality converge and co-exist in f(r)iction. In a context where the mechanisms of capitalism enhance the extractive exploitation of resources, overproduction and soil depletion, Magical Realism brings together artists and thinkers whose work rethinks our ways of inhabiting and conceiving of the universe. At the confluence of analytic and speculative... Read more