The project

Between being and non-being.

MINORIA is an original philosophical and curatorial project conceived by Monika Turczyńska and developed through successive chapters in Venice and beyond.

01The central premise

Form begins before it can be named.

MINORIA examines the space in which an image, a material, a memory or an experience has not yet become fully defined, but is no longer absent. It is a field of emergence: a reality sensed before it is recognised.

The artworks do not illustrate a closed theory. They function as traces, thresholds and activations — material evidence of something that remains partly concealed. What matters is not only what appears, but the conditions that allow appearance to begin.

02A working language

Words for what precedes visibility.

preperceptio
the state before recognition
seismos
an inner movement or tremor
adumbratio
the shadow of a form before the form
lumen absconditum
light that remains concealed
texis
the weaving of matter, time and meaning
metaxia
the space between defined states
03Project structure

One system. Many chapters.

Each exhibition becomes a distinct chapter of MINORIA. The artist, material and spatial situation change, while the central question remains: how does the not-yet-visible enter form without losing the trace of its own becoming?

Conceived by Monika Turczyńska — poet, curator, conceptual artist and philosopher.Explore the chapters