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The show is called STILL WET at @galeriemet. The title is not just poetry — it is a curatorial argument. Eighteen artists, many with OBJKT practices, showing work that refuses the physical-meets-digital framing. Not a crossing between separate worlds but continuous movement within a single ecology of images. Some of the sharpest writing on medium I have seen from artists in a group show: @patricktresset: “I consistently return to painting because of the physicality of the medium; it possesses a unique presence that prints or digital images on a display cannot replicate.” Lisanne Haack on expanded painting: “Post-painting reads mostly as a curatorial hedge, a way of gesturing at painting without committing to the word. It treats the expansion as a special case, as if the default is a painting sitting still.” Martín Bruce: “For me there is no fixed starting point or final version. The image keeps circulating between digital and physical forms, changing through each translation while remaining recognizably the same.” DuGucciPourMonChat: “A painting is no longer an endpoint but the beginning of a sequence of translations. It can become a 3D model, a sculpture, a photograph, with each transformation adding a new material identity without replacing the previous one.” Helio Santos on digital materiality: “Digital media require a great deal of physical infrastructure to exist: screens, printers, electrical systems, servers, cables, processors. We often think of digital images as immaterial, but they depend on very tangible conditions.” Yuran Yakon: “The word stream is offering an analogy between the stream of consciousness, the stream of water, the stream of electricity and the stream of data. Every digital image is directly linked to processes of water consumption.” This is what happens when a gallery takes artists who work across chain and canvas seriously enough to let them write about what they are actually doing, rather than slotting them into a crypto art category. The result reads less like a market event and more like a condition report. On view through September 5. Mariannenstrasse 33, Berlin.

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