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𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 A performance in three stages by Selin Davasse, 2025

She is pleasingly plump. All she wants is to chomp, chomp, chomp. She is quenchless and ravenous. No pile of mulberry leaves is ever enough. She wants more. An economic insect—if she isn’t growing, she’s dying.

Caught in an abyss of jouissance, she is ready to metamorphose. She salivates, she spins, she cocoons. Her head awhirl and her heart in her mouth, she labors with slobbery insistence toward her becoming. But spit by spit, as silk hardens into thread, death is closing in.

At last, she understands the terms and conditions. Raised in a controlled environment that posed as the best of all possible worlds, she was always destined to suffer the worst of all possible deaths: boiled alive—exploited, alienated, unrealized—in the name of maximizing profit.

𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘯𝘦’𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳. 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘺𝘮𝘣𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘬𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘮. 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵— 𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤, 𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘹, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘩𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘮—𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵: 𝘢 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘺, 𝘩𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘷𝘢 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘴; 𝘢 𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘱𝘵𝘶𝘰𝘶𝘴, 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘵𝘩; 𝘢 𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘺𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴, 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘣.

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Friday May 9th 2025 6-9 pm

Closing event, Finissage and Dreaming Session 6-9pm with artist Alicja Wysocka, 

Duoshow: Seline Davasse, Alicja Wysocka

The Last Commune – Invitation to Collective Dreaming

Friday, 9th of May at 6 - 9pm, THE MOMENT , Ackerstraße 173, Berlin, 5th floor

Web: themoment.space IG@themoment.space

Join us for a collective dreaming session with Alicja Wysocka, where we will reimagine queer futurities together. Through somatic exercises, role play, collective storytelling, and map-making, we’ll explore and design alternative futures. Rooted in our shared experiences and desires, this session invites us to imagine and articulate the worlds we long for. Alicja Wysocka’s upcoming mockumentary film will incorporate contributions from the session — imagined futures, embodied characters, utopian fragments — to build a fictional archive of a commune that never was, or hasn’t yet come into being. Blending reality and fiction, the film becomes a rehearsal space for possible futures, challenging dominant narratives of crisis. This space is created by and for queer and FLINTA* individuals — come co-create and co-dream with us. You’re welcome to stay overnight — we’ll provide snacks, tea, and mattresses.

This event marks the finissage of the duo exhibition by Alicja Wysocka and Selin Davasse at THE MOMENT.

THE MOMENT & MOUCHES VOLANTES invite you to a special encounter:

SELIN DAVASSE @radicalized_faghag & ALICJA WYSOCKA @alfa_omegi

at Ackerstraße 173, Berlin.

Opening: Saturday, 3 May 2025 — doors open from 3 PM. Performance by Selin Davasse: 4–4:30 PM. Exhibition runs until 9 May. Visits by appointment via DM.

On the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin, two distinctive spaces — THE MOMENT (Therapy Room) run by Olga Cerkasova @olgacyclop and MOUCHES VOLANTES directed by @ihsanalisan — come together for their first duo exhibition.

Selin Davasse (invited by Ihsan Alisan/ Mouches Volantes): A performance that crawls, hungers, and questions — CONSEQUENCES OF SALIVATING reflects on labour, desire, and exclusion with sharp intimacy.

Alicja Wysocka (invited by Olga Cerkasova/The Moment): Through video and interactive installation, Wysocka traces stories of displacement and collective dreams for a different future.

We look forward to welcoming you!

Photos: Joe Clark & Alicja Wysocka

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Garden anomaly

Saturday/Sábado garden exhibition 8th of February 2025 for @zonamaco art week Mexico City! 

Public opening/inauguración, 4 pm - 9pm

Organized by @themoment.space, hosted by Merike Estna @merikeestna, part of the Zona Maco VIP program with Gallery Karen Huber @khgaleria

Av. 1 #42, col. san pedro de los pinos, Mexico city, CDMX

Lorena Ancona @lorena.ancona

Wendy Cabrera Rubio @wendy_cabrera_rubio

Olga Cerkasova @olgacyclop

Mariana Dussel @marianadussel

Merike Estna @merikeestna

Natalia Levy Villa @ttttachaaa

Jaime Lobato Cardoso @jaimelobatocardoso

Chavis Marmol @chavismarmol

Rodrigo Murillo @basuraconceptualreciclada

Maximilian Thiel @maximilian__thiel

Daniel Uranga @danielurangaa

Helga Wretman @helgawretman

Open studio only on Saturday by/solo en Sábado:

Sofía Ortiz @sofia_ortiz_s

Mariana Paniagua @marimarianela

Sandra Sánchez @phiopsia

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Closing event:

Saturday, 14th December 2024 17 — 22 HRS

Performance by Adrienne Herr — 20 HRS

Music by Schranz9

Opening Sunday, 8th December. 15 — 21 H

Ackerstraße 173, Berlin Mitte

Mexico City based curatorial program N/A/S/L @nameagesexlocation is being hosted by THE MOMENT @themoment.space on its endeavor to present this group exhibition in Berlin Mitte

We are glad to invite you, all welcome

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Opening: Sunday, 8th December. 15 — 21 H

performance by Jorge Berumen @jorgee__berumen

live music by Cárpatos @carpatosmusic at 18 H

Wednesday, 11th December 2024 18 — 23 HRS

Performance by Juan Diego @junciego — 19 HRS

Participating artists:

Marco Aviña @muera_la_intelectualidad___

Roberto Delgadillo Moreno @robrtomoreno

Juan Diego @junciego

Manuela García @xmanuelagarcia

Adrienne Herr @adrienne__herr

María Jorge @mariaj0rge

Delia Jürgens @deliajuergens

Adriana Lara #adrianalara

Natalia Levy Villa @ttttachaaa

Sean Lynch #SeanLynch

Rodrigo Navarro @rodrigonavarro

Diego Salvador Rios @ds_re

Survival Research Laboratories #SurvivalResearchLaboratories

Anna Taganzeva @annataganzeva

Roger van Voorhees @rogerparkerpoesy

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what a doom, creep and hectic world, anyhow a hopeful claim and pray for beauty, love and poetry as a relief and cure, 🙏🌹🎐 ... (Dapper and spiffy notes on a hyper-maniacally-productive&bioexploitative ocularcentrist society 👀⚙️🧠 from a beyond-humanism devotional-anarchist being that thinks itself as a kind of post-communist hyperliquid-latemodern post-non-existence—cosmic-pessimist taoist that dresses for everyday life as a medieval Bard) — devotional art, at your discretion,

Fantasized by N/A/S/L @nameagesexlocation (Mexico City)

Hosted by THE MOMENT @themoment.space (Berlin)

Ackerstraße 173, Berlin Mitte. 08 - 14 December, 2024.

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Amnesia of Balance

›The Moment‹ is a semi-nomadic exhibition that started in Frankfurt am Main, then moved to Mexico City, and is currently located in an exhibition space in Berlin Mitte. ›The Moment‹ was spontaneously born as an initiative managed by artist Olga Cerkasova to create a series of alternative exhibition models, from which a constellation of micro events, energies, and the dissemination and organic growth and interweaving of art pieces would emerge. 

The first chapter, an outdoor group show titled ›Echosystem‹, took place in Mexico City as a gesture to reclaim a bond with the street after months of confinement during the pandemic. These ›echoes‹ – artworks almost invisible and minimal – were left in the public space under diverse circumstances that would affect them, a condition that goes hand in hand with their future decay, transformation, or eventual disappearance.

The exhibition during Berlin Art Week will be a continuation of the exhibition that occurred in the streets of Mexico City and the first exhibition in Berlin called ›Therapy Room‹ as a reflection and dialogue between these two cities and the participating artists. Works will be placed in the exhibition space on Ackerstraße and scattered across some locations nearby in the public sphere, accompanied by a small map to guide people as they move from one location to another. The exhibition title ›Amnesia of Balance‹ addresses ways of forgetting and balancing current states and realities. Reflecting on Marcel Proust, in his monumental work ›In Search of Lost Time‹ (also known as ›Remembrance of Things Past‹), he delves deeply into the themes of memory and forgetting. He explores the idea that forgetting is an essential part of memory, allowing for the reemergence of memories in a new light and creating a dynamic and evolving relationship with the past. Overall, Proust portrays memory as a fluid phenomenon, intimately connected to sensory experiences and emotions, capable of revealing and influencing profound truths about our lives and identities. This perspective aligns with contemporary cognitive science and neuroscience, where this exhibition will blend scientific exploration with philosophical reflection. The exhibited artworks will focus on creating new memories, new moments, and neurological pathways within an imagined route, a mycelium, located in one of the last remaining memories, an ungentrified apartment in Berlin Mitte turned exhibition space.

Participating artists: Dan Bodan, Olga Cerkasova, Inga Danysz, Merike Estna, Isabella Fürnkäs, Nschotschi Haslinger, Raphael Hefti, Niclas Riepshoff, Maximilian Thiel, Lola von der Gracht, Helga Wretman

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Helga Wretman @helgawretman ´Lightning from a clear sky´, 2024 Digital video, feild monitor, peli case, led light, pipe

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Olga Cerkasova @olgacyclop Special connections, 2024 Caly, mixed media, paper, cables, acrylic paint

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Olga Cerkasova @olgacyclop New branching, 2024 Clay, plastic, paper, acrylic paint

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Raphael Hefti @raphaelhefti Polycristaline Horticulture, 2022 Bismuth

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Isabella Fürnkäs ´Remote control´, 2024 Glazed ceramic, size variabl 22 cm x 9 cm

Isabella Fürnkäs ´Untitled (Word of mouth), 2024 Mixed media on paper 96 cm x 60 cm

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Merike Estna ´Murder´, 2023 Oil and acrylic on canvas

60 cm x 45 cm

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Nschotschi Haslinger ´Reisende´, 2024 Colorpencil on paper in frame

50 cm x 37,5 cm

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Lola von der Gracht ´Untitled (Hold me)´, 2019 Ink on paper

`Untitled (Bald Heads)´, 2019 Inkjetprint on archival fine art paper in a frame, pencil

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Olga Cerkasova 'Symbiotic Wild', 2024 Corals, mixed media, clay 10 cm x 70 cm

Olga Cerkasova 'Veins', 2020-24 Paper, acrylic paint 170 cm x 250 cm (variable measures)

Olga Cerkasova’s sculptures resemble growing entities, remnants of a past or future civilization. Presen- ted as an invisible series, they depict symbiotic relationships between humans, humanoids, and natural elements or found objects, such as cables, shells, branches, and stones.