TRIPWIRE interrogates the intertwined systems of capital, power, and culture. Through sculpture, image, and games, artists employ tactics—dismantling, provoking, or evading—to reveal the underlying structures that sustain them.

Our inaugural show captures our world that is increasingly fragmented.

Routine fireworks rupture our landscape. Its shrapnel not only affects our physical world. Its projectiles cross the boundary into the realm of the digital. Originally two separate frontiers, they have since combined—the trenches forming a series of interconnected passageways, invisible to the naked eye.

Computer viruses have evolved. They now use the digital as merely a tunnel to pass through back into the physical, seeding the minds of millions. It passes through the physical in the form of dinner table arguments, gunfights, a cigarette on a lonely night. Then it burrows itself back into the digital, unaccounted for.

Something deadly looms as our foot mistakenly parks there, but we aren't sure it'll blow. Besides, bootleg tripwires exist too.

In a time of abundance, we are hungrier than ever. We crave love, we crave relief, and we crave the truth that is owed to us.

That is why we voluntarily walk into traps. That is why when we lie down to sleep at night, we stretch our hands to reach for the traps there, too.