EXCHANGE OFFICE:
POSTCARDS FROM SUPRAINFINIT 2023 – ongoing

Immersive installation comprised of several works Apparatus 22 proposes a wondrous gift exchange: 100 otherworldly round leather postcards from the utopian universe of SUPRAINFINIT are offered to the museum’s visitors in exchange for 100 daydreams / wishes of utopia and hopeful futures.

Apparatus 22 – EXCHANGE OFFICE: POSTCARDS FROM SUPRAINFINIT draws on the collective’s long-term interest in proposing thought-provoking elements (material or immaterial) for gift exchanges with diverse communities and their assiduous work in hybridizing ~ transforming realities ~ conjuring different futures one step at a time, via imagining and unfolding a utopian fictional realm SUPRAINFINIT \ where hope is a critical, corrosive tool. In this poetic economy, hope becomes currency – immeasurable, ineffable, yet powerful.The gesture is generous, and the logic is radical: value is redefined through generosity, imagination, and shared possibility. Apparatus 22 (RO / BE / Suprainfinit utopian realm)

Apparatus 22 is a collective of daydreamers, citizens of many realms, researchers, poetic activists and (failed) futurologists founded in January 2011 by current members Erika Olea, Maria Farcas, Dragos Olea together with Ioana Nemes (1979 – 2011) in Bucharest, Romania. Beginning with 2015 they are working between Bucharest, Brussels and SUPRAINFINIT utopian universe. The work of Apparatus 22 was presented in numerous exhibitions and diverse formats most recently in Kunsthalle Mannheim (DE), SMAK Gent (BE), The Contemporary Art Museum (MNAC), Bucharest (RO), Contemporary Art Museum Roskilde (DK – solo, unfolding), Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (DE), Malmö Konstmuseum (SE), Kunsthal Gent (BE), Triumf Amiria, Museum of Queer Culture (RO), WEST, Den Hague (NL).

Thanks to The Romanian Culture Institute.