Exhibition by Olga Matveeva and Yulia Mashkova

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The project "Biopolitics of Vulnerability" examines corporeality as a field of biological and cultural tensions. Vulnerability is not viewed as a weakness, but as a condition that shapes the processes of survival, adaptation, and transformation. The installation unites bodily forms and zoomorphic structures, building an environment in which the organic and the artificial lose clear boundaries.

These forms reference biological strategies - migration, evolution, anabiosis, and reproduction - but simultaneously function as metaphors for adaptive processes. The figures - stripped, faceless, or frozen in a moment of transition - exist in the liminal space between the human and the animal, the body and the shell, life and its suspension. In this context, slowing down can be understood as a strategy for preserving life under conditions of instability.