Société is pleased to announce What are you looking for?, a group exhibition curated by Brandy Carstens, featuring works by Afra Al Dhaheri, Lorenzo Amos, Beatrice Arraes, Alvaro Barrington, Lee Bontecou, June Crespo, Luisa Gardini, Rajyashri Goody, Salim Green, Kenji Ide, Olivia van Kuiken, Heidi Lau, Kate Mosher Hall, Chemu Ng’ok, Alexandra Noel, Haim Steinbach, Anh Trần, Nora Turato, Kaari Upson, Julia Yerger and Evian Wenyi Zhang.

What are you looking for? delves into the alignment of entropy and information theory. Entropy is a measure of deconstruction, disorder, and randomness; and this exhibition illustrates that the uncertainty of disorder propels our curiosities forward to acquire knowledge, break down the world around us, organize our thoughts, and tell our stories.

Exploring entropy as both a concept and a metaphor, the exhibition interrogates how systems of knowledge, perception, and communication are shaped by the inherent instability of information—particularly in an age where misinformation, authoritarian populism, and algorithmic (cognitive) bias dominate public discourse.

Drawing inspiration from the avant-garde tradition of the mental game—a strategy used by early 20th- century artists like Picasso and Braque to create order from chaos (on the precipice of WW1)— What are you looking for? reinterprets this approach for a contemporary context. By deconstructing and reconstructing information, the work presented engages with the uncertainty of the lived experience, offering narratives that reflect the search for meaning in an increasingly complex reality.