Maybe we could both belong

Emotions permeate popular culture, public discourse, and our everyday lives. At the same time, the world is in a collective state of crisis, uncertainty, and social unrest, which has an inevitable impact on our emotional lives and affects the choices we make. The group exhibition Maybe we could both belong explores how emotions are not only subjective, inner states, but also social and political forces, which are shaped by historical contexts and can animate new movements.

Through sculpture, video, installation, and painting, 12 contemporary international artists examine how emotions emerge and circulate between people – how they both connect us, create distance between us, and influence how we navigate in the world. The works in the exhibition open up different emotional spaces where lived life, relations, and social structures unfold. Here, it becomes clear how certain emotions can be exploited to instrumentalize oppression and exclusion, but also how emotions can be harnessed as fuel to change one’s situation, relationships as well as communities – and perhaps even political systems.

The exhibition title is borrowed from the song Maybe.. by haloplus+