Real Flow

The future is always difficult to predict. But, for all the unknown complexities exposed through economic crisis, one thing is increasingly certain: our planet has become fully engulfed by the volatility of finance and its constant state of risk. This hegemonic order is no longer driven by objectives of progress or development but rather by the management of the perpetual present of risk-opportunity.

The process of sublimation whereby capitalism melts ‘all that is solid... into air’ requires a phase transition. Many biological systems are continually poised close to a critical point where numerous interacting components can tip the system's organization from one global state to another. As a species, we are evolving past Cartesian confinement. Our bodies no longer define our limits. Technological upgrades on human senses pave the way to new dimensions of evolutionary adaptation so that tangibility can transcend Earth-bound experience.

The ocean may reconnect us with primordial fluidity, yet it is air that offers the ultimate realm of possibility. Air reconstitutes power from body-wielding mechanisms to morphable energy. Unhindered by the viscosities of liquid, air overcomes terrestrial friction towards a future more sublime than capitalism can afford.

For its inaugural exhibition, K. is pleased to present the launch of Real Flow, a financial research and development company founded by artists, theorists, and curators based in New York and London.

Beyond liquidity is air. Beyond capital is our future.