Artefact: Grind Grind Grind, Release presents Amoxtli as a new spatial configuration developed for STUK Leuven in dialogue with curator Karen Verschooren and the exhibition’s guiding question: how can an exhibition function as a massage?

This iteration shifts the work onto a saturated green floor that operates at once as chroma key, vegetal field, and arid landscape. The five channels are dispersed across the space without a fixed front, allowing visitors to move between them through a nocturnal structure of partial visibility shaped by stools, columns, screens, and exposed cables.

The configuration evokes an urban landscape of fragments, where cruising, pausing, watching, and being watched remain inseparable. Screens at different heights and distances articulate a segmented, serpent-like body, while visible wiring runs overhead like exposed nerves.

In relation to Tavares Strachan’s neon work You Belong Here, Amoxtli introduces another spatial pressure: not belonging as statement, but as movement, tension, and temporary orientation.