Underneath the Paving Stone [group]

Artists: Lygia Clark, Anders Hergum, Valérie Jouve, Yuko Mohri, Kasra Seyed Alikhani, Anne Tallentire, Carla Zaccagnini
Curator: Karin Bähler Lavér
URL: https://lundskonsthall.se/

Underneath the Paving Stone begins with a set of urgent, interwoven questions: How do built environments, institutional structures, and historical forces shape us as subjects? In what ways are art and life mutually implicated—especially under conditions of crisis, constraint, or repression—and how might artistic freedom be exercised or reimagined within such contexts?
Bringing together artists from diverse geographies and generations, the exhibition offers a multifaceted inquiry into the politics of public space and the ideological operations of infrastructure. Through varied artistic methodologies, these works critically engage the systems—spatial, social, and symbolic—that organize collective life, attending closely to the fractures and absences that render them permeable.
Rather than offering prescriptive answers, the exhibition foregrounds the aesthetic and political potential of art to reveal, resist, and reconfigure the conditions under which we live. It interrogates the entangled ecological, technological, economic, and cultural dynamics that shape not only patterns of movement and exchange but also the very possibility of expression and relation.
In an era marked by intersecting global crises, Underneath the Paving Stone asks what it means to imagine, create, and act together—and whether art might illuminate the spaces, however narrow, where new forms of solidarity and freedom can take root.