Everything Everything is alarmed

In the organizer's words:

This year, nachtspeicher23 e. V. is bringing together artistic positions on the theme of hospitality, a term that is often associated with warmth, openness and generosity. But what happens the moment this gesture begins to falter? When being welcome is no longer congruent with one's own feelings? When you are invited to stay, but inside you are already on your way out?

The starting point of the exhibition "Everything Everything is alarmed" by Omid Arabbay and Shekkeba Arabbay lies precisely in this shift, in the moment when hospitality can no longer just be read as an offer, but also opens up a field of tension between staying and leaving. A space in which the contradictory feelings of closeness and distance, gratitude and the desire to retreat overlap.

The works in the exhibition move along this fault line. They ask not only what it means to receive, but also what it means to withdraw or have to withdraw from this reception. Hospitality appears here less as a stable gesture than as a fragile construct of expectations, power relations and individual feelings. The nachtspeicher23 itself thus becomes a place of this ambivalence that invites and asks questions. A space in which arrival and departure are inextricably linked.

The annual program of the nachtspeicher23 is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. The exhibition "Everything Everything is alarmed" is additionally supported by the HFBK Hamburg and the Karl H. Ditze Foundation.