Through the Looking Glass

Inspired by the COVID-19 lockdown, Garage Rotterdam created a group exhibition in its window featuring work by Silvia B., Antye Guenther, Steven Maybury, Jochem Rotteveel, Olivier Scheffer and Lavinia Xausa. In this exhibition, entitled Through the Looking Glass, the fragility of life is unfurled through the eyes of art. This frailty reveals itself on many levels, such as health and the security of work and income, but also the delicate world order, with its rising tensions both within and between countries. We are living in the Anthropocene, an age shaped by humankind, and yet nowadays we feel more like pinballs. The six Rotterdam-based artists use their work to reflect upon these inauspicious times, and in doing so transform the gallery window into a bizarre universe in which the world is turned upside down.