Opening on August 29, 2025, the exhibition will be on view in London until September 10, 2025.
''What Will Not Bend, Will Break'' approaches nature not merely as a backdrop, but as an active and transformative subject of memory—something that holds, displaces, and evolves.
Within the context of deepening ecological uncertainties and accelerating urbanization, the exhibition invites a discussion on how nature is perceived beyond its aesthetic or functional dimensions, and how these perceptions actively shape both cultural and personal memory.
Here, nature is understood not as a romantic escape but as a narrator of time.
In this context, the exhibition initiates a dialogue that questions our relationship with urban life and nature; it examines how faith in scientific rationality and technological solutions as answers to every problem has weakened our ethical ties to the environment, leading us to view nature merely as a system to be managed and optimized.
Rather than placing nature in a passive or distant role, the exhibition reveals the complex interrelations between nature, culture, and artistic practice in areas where ecological presence still dominates.
These contexts expose a tense interaction that oscillates between awe and fear—beyond mere admiration for nature—and these tensions continue to shape collective memory and daily experience.
''What Will Not Bend, Will Break'' seeks to reevaluate our relationship with nature through a renewed and embodied approach.
Through the diverse practices of participating artists working in various media—including photography, painting, sculpture, and site-specific installations—the exhibition explores ways of recognizing nature as one of the subjects that thinks, feels, and transforms alongside us.
The exhibition is open to the public free of charge. Visitors are welcome Monday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The gallery is closed on Sundays.
