At Tabula Rasa Gallery, Play Becomes a Way to Explore the World

There is something profoundly serious in children’s play. Beneath the lightness of invented rules and improvised objects lies a way of confronting the fears and tensions of the real world. This intuition shapes the exhibition, conceived as a playground that is only seemingly innocent.
Within the space appear paper frogs locked in combat, knitted sickles and rockets, images hidden beneath umbrella fabric, and small spheres drifting under digital gravity. Six artists and collectives adopt deliberately soft and simple visual strategies to approach complex themes: power dynamics, social vulnerability, and the fragile line between life and death.
The exhibition invites visitors to shift their perspective. Works are installed lower than usual, accompanied by carpets and cushions, transforming the gallery into a space to experience almost at a child’s scale.
Here, play is not an escape but a form of critical imagination—an attempt to question reality and search for new forms of resilience and possibility within its fractures.