The project is defined from the notion of ​​contingency in natural laws, which could change (or not) at any time without any apparent reason. It refers to the laws of nature that are infinite, incalculable and impossible to encompass, in order to reflect on the limits of human existence, their stability and permanence in time. Thus, the project resonates with Quentin Meillassoux's questions regarding human knowledge of the world, it’s natural, and invariant laws, within the finitude of our knowledge and our existence.

After finitude reflects on how the infinite and finite probabilities do not present an obstacle to calculate specific mundane events. We cannot position ourselves outside of nature and calculate a possible number of laws to determine the likelihood that any of these will change. And although we can speak of probability when we examine everyday events, we cannot refer to the probable and the improbable when we describe nature as a whole that contains us.

The exhibition brings together a set of works, which obliquely suggest the problematic of referring to infinity within finitude. The works outline different ways of questioning our understanding of the process of creation, the temporality of objects, their physical limits, and the notion of absolute infinity. Concepts such as the ancestral and the arche-fossil enrich the reading of these works under the premise that they are constructed in order to indicate a reality that expands and exceeds historical time.

There is a problem with referring to any object in the world before or after humankind while trying to escape correlationist thinking, as it suggests that we cannot elaborate thoughts and have knowledge of a world beyond the eventuality of humanity. However, the complexity of assessing that which surpasses the confines of finitude in order to construct knowledge of a transfinite reality, does not seem to prevent different formulations about that which will survive us.

Meric Algün, Gerard Byrne, Elena Damiani, Ann Edholm, Paul Fägerskiöld, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Eva Löfdahl, José Vera Matos

Curator: Elena Damiani