Step 4. PROFIT

Step 4. PROFIT, a collaboration between Plicnik Space Initiative and Babak Ahteshamipour, Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes, Émilie Brout & Maxime Marion, BVYV, Samuel Capps, Constanza Castagnet, Andrea Khôra, Inès Kivimäki, Elouan Le Bars, Ahreum Lee, Nellie Lindquist, Joe Moss, and Philip Speakman, marks the final entry in a four-part inquiry into our times. The series follows a persistent momentum—a pursuit where a drive for results collides with uncertainty.

A generative machine's utopic vision of space may overlook the circulation of human bodies within. Over the course of Steps 1 through 4, the same spatial parameters are reshuffled, offering a glitched, virtual interpretation of a simple architectural premise. A dice roll determines the arrangement of the space, creating absurd outcomes. The installation's core elements are suspended between ornament and function, ascension and concealment, challenging the limits of the gallery space and its vantage points.

Finally. We have arrived at the ultimate step. It was a long time coming; our due. And now I wonder, have we somehow ascended? Beyond the corporeal—a clearing of the mind, where a dense cloud cover dissolves, allowing for enlightenment; the deep sort of enlightenment you'd only find in a WSJ-recommended self-help book. We can do away with the Bloomberg Terminal and focus on a truer oracle: you.

This show is the fourth and final chapter in a four-part experimental curatorial project led by Melle Nieling and Amélie Mckee.