Chapter 1

Eat your shadows

As the inaugural chapter of a four-part exploration of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, Eat Your Shadow invites us to confront the illusions that shape contemporary existence. Taking its cue from the first stage of the cave allegory—the shadows—this exhibition reimagines the ancient metaphor for our digital age, drawing parallels between the deceptive shadows on the cave wall and the illusions fostered in every surface of modernity.

Set within a rave context, Eat Your Shadow is first and foremost a space for collective confluence and the joy of relation. From here we flow into investigations through visual art while deep house and techno form a pulsating atmosphere. Sculptural, digital, and performative works fill the site, creating a network of sensory disruptions.

The exhibition presents works by seven multidisciplinary artists, spanning nine pieces across sculpture, animation, and performance. These works, primarily in 3D, physically invade and challenge the audience’s spatial experiences while projections allude to the intangible. In contrast to the duality of light and shadows, the tactile presence of these sculptures adds depth and dimension to the dialogue, examining complexity in the forms we view and occupy. The tension between two-dimensional shadows and three-dimensional physicality echoes the dissonance between perception and perspective.