One Bad Decision Away – a moment of inattention, a wrong motorway exit, cutting too much in the studio. In precarious circumstances, a misstep can become existential; in other moments, it opens unexpected pathways. The title plays with this ambivalence between gravity and banality, without glorifying injury as opportunity. Inspired by a Berlin postage stamp series that, under the motto “Safety at All Times,” presented potential accidents as harmless pictograms, Nicl Barbro and Edgar Unger explore these fragile threshold moments – those points where error, risk, and recognition merge into one another.
In Nicl Barbro’s half-reliefs and hybrid objects, images and materials layer upon one another: a tongue licks grass and cuts itself, tap shoes leave notches in wood whose sound lives on in Edgar Unger’s work. Moments of physical and mental overload meet those of overcoming.
Edgar Unger’s dream-logical installations circle around collective feelings of security and their fragility – objects suspended between promises of protection and latent threat. His works follow their own internal logic, where material and idea pragmatically interlock, consciously playing with coherence and rupture.
Together, both explore the fragile moments between control and loss of control. Their sculptures, drawings, and sound works address life’s unpredictability and the conscious misstep as a gesture of interruption in the smooth functioning of things.