Mission Statement
Members of our collective live and work between Albuquerque, Berlin, Tehran, Cairo, Nairobi, Warsaw, London, Rotterdam and Paris. These places are not merely locations on a map; they are fault lines—geopolitical, cultural, and ecological. Our lives unfold along these fractures. Distance, for us, is not an obstacle. It is the condition we inhabit, the tension we work through and against.
We do not operate as a fixed studio. We move more like a constellation—an evolving formation whose points shift according to urgency rather than routine. Each member maintains an individual practice, yet when we work together the authorship becomes shared, carried collectively. When a project begins as an individual impulse, it remains so. This elasticity is not confusion; it is a structure that refuses rigidity.
We believe that a deeper artistic reality emerges from the layering of different styles, methods, histories, and values. Rather than smoothing out difference, we compose with it. Complexity is not a problem to resolve but a condition to inhabit. Shared responsibility, negotiated authorship, and transparency are therefore not ideals we gesture toward—they are the working methods through which the collective survives.
The reason we formalise this collective now is simple: the fractured political, social, and ecological conditions of the present cannot be confronted from isolated artistic positions alone. Hyper-individualism mirrors the very crises we seek to address. To remain alone is to reproduce the same fragmentation.
We are driven by the desire to move beyond the borders that history has assigned us—national, linguistic, cultural—not by denying those histories but by working through them, together.
For us, collective production is not a stylistic choice. It is a structural response. It is a way of resisting atomisation, of building durability across difference, of rehearsing forms of coexistence that exceed the limits of the studio, the nation, and the market.
We come together because the present demands new solidarities.
We refuse the inherited divisions between East and West.
We refuse violence—social, political, or cultural—as a normal condition of life.
We formalise because urgency requires structure.
We work collectively because the future will not be built alone.