Always Avoid Discussions, Never Discuss

2025
Exhibition as a communication medium

The Rodina's solo exhibition became an inquiry into exploring intersections between art and graphic design by opening up space for dynamic, time-based, and "live" communication with the audience. How might performance and graphic design be connected both as situated practices that trace and initiate entanglements of material, semiotic, and affective apparatuses in contemporary society? "Never Discuss" focused on the gallery's architectural and institutional situation by engaging with the exhibition as a specific form of communication and by responding to the intricate layout of the space. This reflective, commentary-driven approach aligns with the fundamental principles of graphic design, where visual messaging is inseparably tied to its subject.

  • Always Avoid Discussions, Never Discuss: cut-outs spiral past legged boards, an intricate layout under gallery vaults
  • Always Avoid Discussions, Never Discuss: boards say 'SILENCE' and 'BULLSHIT' by brown wall blobs, exhibition as medium
  • Always Avoid Discussions, Never Discuss: triangles file over parquet to a blue doorway, the gallery's intricate layout
  • Always Avoid Discussions, Never Discuss: green triangles line the gallery floor, boards say 'SILENCE', 'EXPLANATION' live
  • Always Avoid Discussions, Never Discuss: 'YOU' on a grey board under a black wedge, cut-outs dot an intricate gallery layout
  • Always Avoid Discussions, Never Discuss: purple and brown blobs hover over legged boards, cut-outs trace the gallery layout
  • Always Avoid Discussions, Never Discuss: a figure stacks grey crates on a trestle under brown blobs, a live exhibition build
  • Always Avoid Discussions, Never Discuss: boards say 'SILENCE' and 'PROVOCATION' along the gallery's intricate layout
  • Always Avoid Discussions, Never Discuss: a blue doorway frames a board's 'RESPONSE' by a red dotted blob, a live medium
  • Always Avoid Discussions, Never Discuss: crates read 'SHAPES OF GOSSIP', semiotic material under a violet circle on purple
  • Always Avoid Discussions, Never Discuss: crates read 'DIGITAL SWAMP', 'LEFT UNSAID', affective apparatuses on purple
  • Always Avoid Discussions, Never Discuss: yellow and orange pixel shapes climb gallery walls, cut-outs cluster in the layout
  • Always Avoid Discussions, Never Discuss: boards say 'EMPTY', 'CONVERSATION' under an orange pixel shape, live gallery talk
  • Always Avoid Discussions, Never Discuss: a figure hoists two battens before a red dotted blob, the exhibition built live
  • Always Avoid Discussions, Never Discuss: green, red and black shapes ring the gallery, cut-outs dot the intricate layout
  • Always Avoid Discussions, Never Discuss: a black blob in a purple bracket, cut-outs ring 'CONSEQUENCES', the gallery layout
  • Always Avoid Discussions, Never Discuss: boards say 'EMPTY', 'ANSWERS', 'CLARITY' under a yellow ziggurat, gallery as medium
  • Always Avoid Discussions, Never Discuss: a figure faces a brown blob painted on the gallery wall, live communication