Resilient Currents exhibition

In 2024, Thanks for Nothing initiated the program of its future Art and Solidarity Center, scheduled to open in 2028 on the site of the former Hôpital Saint-Vincent-de-Paul. This ‘off-site’ program aimed to showcase international socially engaged artistic practices. The exhibition Resilient Currents: On Communal Re-existence inaugurated this cycle. Developed over the course of three years by independent curator Ilaria Conti, the exhibition highlighted multidisciplinary practices linked to Abya Yala (a Kuna term for Central and South America as a constellation of sovereign non-colonial, or decolonized spaces). The exhibition explored the working methodologies employed by the presented artists who acknowledged the urgency of practicing political, social, affective, and spiritual forms of action as part of a network of ethical relationships. Rejecting the limits of colonial systems of knowledge, the artists honored the plurality of worlds that such a commitment to the notion of the communal generates.