The Colliding Ones

The exhibition The Colliding Ones is conceived as a spatial sequence of passages, thresholds, and juxtapositions. The title refers to the Symplegades, the moving rocks at the entrance to the Black Sea, which in legend represent the greatest obstacle to the journey: two rocks that approach and collide, shattering everything that tries to pass between them. At the same time, Vert does not intend the motif to be read exclusively in a critical light. Here, collision also means to intersect, to overlap, and to encounter. What is meant is an intense clash of different perspectives, personalities, and attitudes toward life, an image that can also be applied to complex urban societies in any geography. This concept is not presented narratively in the exhibition, but rather spatially. Visitors move, much like the traveling Argonauts, toward and through various artistic works and constellations. Designed as a multisensory spatial color atmosphere, the exhibition concept creates a collective space of experience in which nine sound compositions invite visitors to pause, arrive, and linger.