Unannounced, she forces her way in through the smallest cracks and holes. She will make use of every open window or ventilation grille. We try to keep her out, but in vain: nature is home more often than we are. Spiders walk across the far corner of the ceiling, bedbugs crawl under the door, yeasts bubble in the bottles in the cellar, and molds feast on the fruit. 

They are the vanguards of the infinite stream of transience and growth in which we wade our entire lives. With mold and rust, decay and growth, nature suggests constant movement. Yet, in reality, hardly anything changes. The fact that things move does not automatically imply a direction, let alone forward or backward. Nevertheless, we are accustomed to viewing the world as a constantly changing place.  
 
Traditional Western stories and myths portray reality as a long succession of events. History began, somewhere at some point, and develops in an upward trajectory until it eventually stops somewhere again. In this view, the world is a place of conflict and progress, of good and evil. Man must hold his own in this stream, but can indeed determine the course of history through his actions. Even the gods can be challenged and overcome, as many a heroic tale demonstrates.  
 
The works in this exhibition align with a different worldview. In traditional Eastern myths, there also appears to be continuous change, but beneath this apparent unrest lies a harmony that is in complete balance. Roles, tasks, and possibilities are fixed. Reality is a fixed state of being. Humanity cannot influence this being; it can only attempt to become one with it. Where to the Western perspective change and progress seem inevitable (stagnation is regression!), in the traditional Eastern worldview these are merely illusions.  
 
The artists in this exhibition work with what is already happening anyway, with or without us. It is small, subtle, and easy to overlook. And at the same time, it is grand, abstract, and difficult to grasp. The immeasurable universe can become visible in a small, everyday detail. Meanwhile, all those small particles hold meaning only within a larger, all-encompassing framework. Through imagination, this exhibition attempts to grasp that which is almost impossible to grasp: the vibrating universe, the rotating world, nature that grows.  
Fungi mold, yeasts bubble.  
It means nothing. It is everything.  
 
'If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.'

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