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The object seeks you. It sees you, penetrates your defenses, begins to consume you. You just want to be it. Everything you want, everything it takes. Just to be it. Contemporary viewers find themselves caught in a world-space where looking has become a fully compromising relationship. As today’s hypervisibility continues to blend the roles of witness and accomplice, we ourselves are transformed into objects by the very act historically engineered to affirm our subjectivity. And it is precisely by holding us too close to this disorienting experience that art may be made, configured, or simply well positioned to invite us to perceive its inner mechanisms. To learn (through) the steps of our glancing dance. Offering a piercing investigation into the fraught dynamics of this lesson, If Tomorrow’s Sun Finds You Within My Boundaries brings together works by two Berlin-based artists sharing a common, pivotal interest: the at once personal and institutional process of subject formation that takes shape through sight. [..] At its core, Ciarrocca’s and Krone’s collaboration navigates a clear set of questions: How does the act of display itself transform what is being displayed? What happens when objects stare back? And—perhaps most provocatively—in what ways has the contemporary system of visual consumption begun to consume the viewer?

—exceerpt from the show’s preview by Reya Guts