Everything That Sustains Us

Everything that sustains us explores the conditions—material, symbolic and epistemological—that make the world inhabitable. Rather than focusing on visible forms or spectacular events, the exhibition turns its attention to what remains mostly unseen: air, water, sediment, belief systems, scientific knowledge and the fragile relations that bind them together. 

 

The exhibition is structured vertically across three levels of the building. Each level corresponds to a different state of the territory—air, surface and subsoil—and proposes a specific way of understanding how the world is sustained. Moving through the exhibition is not a linear narrative but a gradual descent and ascent through layers of matter, meaning and time. 

 

Throughout the exhibition, natural elements coexist with human systems of interpretation and control: painting, science, measurement, classification, economy and belief. These systems are not presented as opposites, but as parallel structures of trust through which reality is observed, explained and stabilized. In this sense, the exhibition does not distinguish between nature and culture, or between objective knowledge and belief, but shows how all of them function as frameworks that allow the world to hold together—temporarily, precariously, and always under tension. 

 

Across these levels, the exhibition reveals how value, belief and matter are unevenly distributed within the same world, shaping different ways of perceiving, measuring and inhabiting it.