Johanna Lakner: Between States

Between States explores the moment in which one state passes into another. The space between fear and courage, sleep and wakefulness, presence and absence, becoming and disappearance. Psychologically, this in between states can be understood as a threshold at which perception and emotion begin to shift. Quantum physics offers no scientific explanation for this experience, but rather a conceptual resonance: in superposition, multiple possible states can coexist before one particular state manifests. Translated into Between States, the space in between is therefore not an absence, but a space of possibility. What state is this thing in right now?

The exhibition brings together painting and sculpture in an exploration of perception, time, space, and transformation. Familiar forms lose their fixed function. Orientation becomes unstable, time escapes measurement, and emptiness acquires volume. An object can be present while simultaneously being detached from its original meaning. What is absent can become as present as what physically remains.