12 Hours of Breathing – presented by the Re-curators Curatorial Collective – is an exhibition of figurative and abstract mixed media works. Relying on the current zeitgeist of ontological precarity, we look inwardly at practices of (artistic) self-preservation and being present: the act of being alive. In getting used to being unable to engage with one another as we once knew, this exhibition explores the many tangents of this existentialism in multiple ways: the mundane; modes of leisurely practice, radical acts of self-care and even with the split moments of joy.

The exhibition reflects on the sense of wrestling and surrendering to the complicated feelings of what it means to be living right now – enduring ontological ruptures. However, the indulgence is not macabre despondency. It is scholar, Paolo Bartoloni who writes about the clarity that might arise from precarity, that which is inextricably linked with the potential. Informed by…