Incommunicability is itself a source of pleasures

The Address is pleased to present “Incommunicability is itself a source of pleasures,” the first solo exhibition by Dorota Gawęda & Egle Kulbokaitė at the gallery. The exhibition brings together a body of new works conceived specifically for the Brescia space, continuing the duo’s exploration of the relationships between body, image, and technology. Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė are a Basel-based artist duo. Both graduated from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2012. Their multifaceted and multidisciplinary practice spans performance, installation, sculpture, painting, fragrance, video, text, sound, and scent. Through the creation of sensory environments that directly engage the audience—merging digital technology with organic elements—the artists create fragmented narratives that mirror the anxieties of our time.
In their practice, the image is never a fixed or determined entity, but rather a site of translation and transition. Materials, surfaces, and projections become tools for probing what eludes definition, the in-between states of the real and the virtual, the corporeal and the artificial, sensation and code. In “Incommunicability is itself a source of pleasures,” the dialogue between the works unfolds as an experience of friction and resonance. Language does not aim for clarity but for the proliferation of meaning. Gawęda & Kulbokaitė work within the threshold where the visible withdraws and reemerges, where distance becomes fertile; a space in which perception and incommunicability coincide, generating a form of pleasure born from the impossibility of full alignment between the observer and the observed.