Dana Blume, Andreana Dobreva, Rachel Frank, Noah Pica

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“Let them eat cake,” she* allegedly said—oblivious to the crumbling world outside her palace gates. Today, the cake has gone stale, and what’s being served instead is (creative) chaos.

Let Them Eat Chaos is an unapologetic celebration of the beautiful mess we’re living in. This exhibition brings together artists who don’t clean up the wreckage—they dance in it. Forget tidy narratives and polished perfection: these works embrace the glitch, the spill, the contradiction. They unravel systems, disrupt expectations, and reflect the uneasiness of the now with refined immediacy.

Rachel Frank, Chrysalid_Metamorphosis_Dual__Protective_Vessel

Rachel Frank looks to nature’s deep-time cycles and ecological entanglements to explore transformation on both material and conceptual levels. Working with clay, bronze, and glass—elements that must first pass through intense heat, melting, and flux—she mirrors the radical reordering processes of the natural world. Her themes of rewilding, extinction, and return speak to chaos not as loss, but as the necessary precursor to regeneration.

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Noah Pica confronts the quiet tyranny of order—how standardized objects like pencils, shirts, and lined paper condition our behaviors and expectations. By lingering on these mundane items, Pica reveals the repressive calm of designed environments. In disrupting their function or reframing their presence, he invites us to imagine a different kind of social infrastructure—one where uniformity gives way to nuance and new meaning.

Andreana Dobreva, Still Life with Yoghurt, 2024, oil on linen, 160x200cm

Andreana Dobreva embraces chaos in the very construction of her paintings. Her works erupt with movement, contradiction, and reference, weaving together art historical codes and contemporary ideologies into a volatile visual fabric. Chaos in Dobreva’s work is not just formal—it’s cultural. By destabilizing inherited gestures and archetypes, she opens space for reflection, resistance, and the possibility of different identities and narratives to emerge.

Dana Blume, _Egg Snatcher_, 2025, oil on arches oil paper, 18.5x23in

Dana Blume dives headlong into emotional and psychological chaos, giving form to fears, compulsions, and absurdities through uncanny, anthropomorphic figures. His creatures inhabit strange, myth-like narratives that oscillate between comedy and tragedy. Whether through narrative or abstraction, Dana’s work suggests that by confronting what unsettles us—by giving shape to the monsters—we might better understand the deep ndercurrents of our collective psyche.

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In a world increasingly defined by fragmentation and contradiction, Let Them Eat Chaos reclaims disorder not as a symptom of failure, but as a necessary rupture—an opening through which something new might emerge. This exhibition is an invitation: to sit with disorder, to question what comes next, and to imagine what might be rebuilt.

*The infamous phrase “Let them eat cake,” is historically (and perhaps inaccurately) attributed to Marie Antoinette.

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