Project Infinit is a newly established artist-run space located at Ijzerenpoortkaai 8 in Antwerp. During Antwerp Art Weekend, it opens with its first exhibition, Kontrapunt – Edition III: The Politics of Visibility, an ongoing curatorial project initiated in 2017.
Kontrapunt – Edition III: The Politics of Visibility is a group exhibition grounded in the idea of counterpoint, bringing together artistic practices that differ in approach, form, or perspective rather than illustrating a shared aesthetic. Instead of seeking harmony or consensus, the exhibition creates encounters where distinct artistic voices coexist, intersect, and challenge one another. Friction and difference are approached as productive conditions for dialogue and reflection.
This edition focuses on visibility, understood not as a neutral visual condition but as a political one shaped by power. Visibility is produced and regulated through social and institutional structures such as media systems, architecture, borders, and technologies of surveillance. The exhibition asks how visibility functions both as a mechanism of control and as a potential site of resistance.
The works presented explore the intersections of visibility with language, memory, embodiment, and spatial politics, approaching visibility as a contested and continuously negotiated terrain.
The exhibition brings together works by Nástio Mosquito, Mekhitar Garabedian, Carlos Aires, and Maryam Najd. As part of the program, a special live performance by Stef Kamil Carlens extends the exhibition into the sonic realm. Carlens is a visual artist, singer, musician, composer, and producer who combines these practices in the performances of the collective Zita Swoon Group.
The program also includes a panel talk moderated by Kathleen Weyts, writer, lecturer, and editor-in-chief of GLEAN. The conversation reflects on the themes of Kontrapunt – Edition III: The Politics of Visibility and the role of artistic practices in addressing questions of visibility, power, and public discourse.