The beaten track is a metaphor for habit, of cultural and perceptual conditioning, which confines the world to a recognizable order of forms. Beyond this lies a departure from order, a transgression of the boundaries of perception, knowledge, and meaning, a mapping of side roads, blind spots, and unfamiliar spaces. The international group exhibition Access Is off the Beaten Track seeks inroads to these. The exhibits open up spaces and experiences where the perception of reality is disrupted and certainty is replaced by the strangeness lurking within the familiar.

Decay, the instability of the body and matter at large, and the perception of hidden and invisible forces in art are symptomatic expressions of a collective destabilization that affects the subject, identity, the environment, and our perception of reality alike. Today, the aesthetic experiences are metaphors not so much for an uncanny, unburied past, but for an uncertain perception of reality in the present. The exhibition seeks to explore this contemporary restlessness, the mental and physical spaces defined by absence, tension, and fragmentation. 

Curators: Máté Zsófia, Patrik Steinhauser