In a chaotic world, humanity strives for control and understanding, yet time and again finds itself mistaken. The exhibition Turning Towards reveals this fundamental human paradox: control feels reassuring, until it lacks the generative force of chaos.
From 27 March to 6 May 2026, curators and artists Yoram Yutte and Lisa Meijer present the exhibition Turning Towards at Studio 2, de Doelen Art featuring Mean Collection, Lissa Gasparotto, Mar Gimeno Lumbiarres, Dineke van Huizen and Manon Malan.
Control offers structure in a world that is unpredictable and exceeds our capacity for comprehension. Through systems, rules and narratives, we attempt to organise our experiences and assign meaning to what surrounds us and what unfolds within us. Yet control is never absolute. There are forces that evade prediction and mastery. Moments of loss and transformation expose the transience of order.
In Turning Towards, the artists explore different ways of relating to this vulnerability. The works express surrender, disruption and disorientation, revealing the tension between intention and unpredictability, structure and chaos. Rather than approaching chaos as destruction, it is presented as a generative condition from which new forms can emerge.
Within this space, the unknown is not framed as something to be solved, but as something to be lived through. Turning Towards does not offer answers, but draws attention to the awareness that being human encompasses more than language can capture. It gestures toward the intuition that we are part of something larger, something that may be cosmic, relational or even spiritual in nature.
