We live in a world where the environmental crisis is no longer a future concern, but a direct experience that passes through our bodies and shapes our everyday possibilities for action. It is now a fact: we live in an era of permanent, intertwined crises. The instability of political and economic systems, technocratic oppression, and capital-driven exploitation directly impact our bodies, while the slow but certain threat of ecological collapse looms overhead. The exhibition responds to the environmental impacts of existing power structures: it examines desiccation, alienation, and vulnerability not as distant problems, but as conditions experienced through the body.
The works on display view the body as a resonant medium — an entity that simultaneously suffers the destruction of the environment, retains its vulnerability, and is capable of connecting through the principles of care, reciprocity, and interconnectedness. In this approach, the exploitation of nature and social oppression stem from a shared logic of power. Highlighting this link, the exhibition explores possibilities for resilience and collective action through an ecofeminist lens, while moving beyond the dualities of “woman–nature” and “man–culture” pairings.
In a psychological sense, resilience refers to the ability to develop an active and creative response to trauma. At the same time, ecological thinking demonstrates that humans are not independent of the ecosystem. Resilience here is relational: a community can only be resilient if its surrounding environment — the local ecosystem — is also healthy and diverse. Through four artistic perspectives, the exhibition reflects on systemic resilience: through the daily experiences of water scarcity, drying landscapes, and vulnerability, it points to the potential of collective action, care, and local knowledge.
The exhibiting artists explore various aspects of this theme through specific case studies and theoretical frameworks. Using a collaborative research methodology, Anna Forgách examines the self-defined, nature-harmonious lifestyles and daily routines of women and their families living in Órgiva, Spain. In Júlia Csapó’s paintings and installations, the human body appears as a roughly proportioned, genderless, and ageless entity in which the outside world and the “self” constantly interpenetrate. Through her photographic series examining communities at the confluence of the Tisza and Maros rivers, Laura Wilhelm interprets the network of relationships involved in coexisting with the river, elevating local fates into a universal ecological question. Nóra Farida Mostafa’s interactive spatial installation explores the mutual dependence between humans and their environment, as well as the possibilities for cooperation. In the dark basement space, by suspending the primacy of sight, hearing, touch, and physical presence become the primary means of connection.
The exhibition Fragile Systems, Resonant Bodies presents artistic positions in which the process of care extends not only to the environment and to humans, but — from a broader perspective — to every living cell.