In Labile Stabilität, the Swiss artist Jos Näpflin focuses on the ongoing engagement with everyday objects transformed into ambiguous spaces of experience while playfully referencing the existentialism of everyday life. Presenting the works throughout the gallery space as a metaphorical book, the artist addresses several themes, such as the delicate stability or instability of societies in change, memento mori, and the universality of the difficult paths walked in life.
The focus and title of the exhibition reference the artwork Labile Stability, Or Just Hold Your Breath, 2026, and reflect the abstract unsettling senses of the contemporaneous times we live in. Using visual playfulness, everyday objects lose their pedestrian meaning, and viewers can meditate on the feeling of expansiveness and being unable to control life's processes.
Functioning as a conceptual frame for the exhibition are fifty-three photographs arranged horizontally throughout the gallery, Sometimes You Die, 2018.