Cyclical Tensions
Exhibition
KARST Volunteer Exhibition
KARST, FENSTER project space
Plymouth, Devon
September 2025
Cyclical Tensions is an exhibition by KARST volunteers.
The works in this exhibition articulate a collective inquiry into repetition, routine, and resistance, whether encountered intentionally or subconsciously, as both a strategy and a conceptual condition. Repetition here is never neutral: it generates tension. It does not promise stability; it exposes vulnerability and temporality. The works enact a resistant gesture against disappearance, inhabiting spaces where memory, process, and fragility continually press against one another.
This exhibition is grounded in the notion that repetition is not static. Each iteration, each routine, each cycle bears the weight of contingency, sustaining a tension that accumulates between sameness and difference, stability and instability, revealing the strain on the efforts that strive to persist within them. What remains is not the perfect copy, but the unresolved resonance: the glitch, the stain, the hand, the horizon line drawn once more.
KARST’s webpost on Cyclical Tensions
Artist showcased:
AS•I•AM, Dana Aala, Elisa Margot Winters, Erica Luke, Flora Elford, Lucy Walker, Noah Cole, Sarah Trotter
Read about the artists
Curated, written, and designed by Nis Murat
The works in this exhibition articulate a collective inquiry into repetition, routine, and resistance, whether encountered intentionally or subconsciously, as both a strategy and a conceptual condition. Repetition here is never neutral: it generates tension. It does not promise stability; it exposes vulnerability and temporality. The works enact a resistant gesture against disappearance, inhabiting spaces where memory, process, and fragility continually press against one another.
This exhibition is grounded in the notion that repetition is not static. Each iteration, each routine, each cycle bears the weight of contingency, sustaining a tension that accumulates between sameness and difference, stability and instability, revealing the strain on the efforts that strive to persist within them. What remains is not the perfect copy, but the unresolved resonance: the glitch, the stain, the hand, the horizon line drawn once more.
KARST’s webpost on Cyclical Tensions
Artist showcased:
AS•I•AM, Dana Aala, Elisa Margot Winters, Erica Luke, Flora Elford, Lucy Walker, Noah Cole, Sarah Trotter
Read about the artists
Curated, written, and designed by Nis Murat
