21-28 May 2025 | The Eighth Day Exhibition GalleryC6 X Zeit

The Eighth Day

“The Eighth Day” Invites us to imagine a moment beyond linear time, a threshold outside the conventional calendar, offering a suspended space for reinvention and collective creation. This temporal dimension doesn’t follow hours or days but emerges from shared intention and a quiet ritual of artistic engagement. It calls us to reflect on memory, identity, and the unseen threads connecting personal experiences to collective histories.

Featuring nine artists — Ana Sting, Eric Armene, Lucia Cheves Dauber, Marcella Cappi, María Massaad, Mattia Vanzini, Manuela Benaim, Paz Vallejo, and Yermine Richardson (Pop Caribe) — that explore the altar as a powerful symbol. These altars serve as intimate sites of dialogue where ancestral echoes meet contemporary realities. They reveal a dynamic interplay between the personal and political, the visible and invisible, inviting us to contemplate the human condition through transformation and resilience.

Each artist contributes a distinct voice using sculpture, painting, and installation to explore memory, desire, identity, and healing. The altar becomes a vessel where individual stories and shared myths converge, illuminating the tension between permanence and impermanence, vulnerability and strength. Organic textures, vibrant colors, movement, and tactile forms deepen the themes, creating immersive environments that challenge viewers to reconsider their relationships with time, space, the body, and the social and cultural structures shaping identity. Offering new ways to understand ourselves and our shared world.

Conceived in the collaborative environment of Zeit, a space that nurtures artistic experimentation and community, The Eighth Day goes beyond the traditional exhibition. It becomes a living ritual, a suspended moment where creation is an act of resistance, remembrance, and hope. It honors the enduring power of art to connect across differences, spark dialogue, and nurture belonging in uncertain times. It opens space for empathy, understanding, and creative resilience.

We are deeply grateful to GalleryC6 for their generous support in bringing this exhibition to life, and for providing a platform where these voices can resonate within a broader cultural conversation.