Offside.
Plans, goals and points

16.07.2026 – 12.09.2026
Group Exhibition

/SAC, Bucharest

At a time when most of the world’s attention is switched over to a sports competition (the 2026 FIFA World Cup), we suggest a reflection on resonance and resilience. [...]

Team sports (and, in a more general sense, collective work and creation as well), perceived as “living architecture”, become the ultimate metaphor for co-working. The playing field is activated through rules that dictate flows, collaborations and co-presences; these turn into choreography and create in/visible “working geometries”. It is a form of “sym-poiesis” (Donna Haraway), a “making-with”, a game in which the final result doesn’t belong to any one individual, but to the whole. This approach resonates with the way in which shared concerns across different artistic disciplines (visual and performing arts, film, and architecture) co-exist and are co-working within this curatorial programme.

We explore competitiveness, but in doing so we also filter out dismaying stakes, by proposing a clear distinction between Competitiveness and Polarization-Aggression-Toxicity. We are interested in what separates us and what brings us together: co-presence, diversity and togetherness, the plurality that reclaims public space performatively (Judith Butler), as well as that dimension of playfulness found in games. On the other hand, competition remains a rhythmic stress generator; it involves the rhythm of effort, the alternation between rest and maximum intensity, the time pressure – an equivalent to deadlines in architecture or to frame rhythm in films. Yet it is this very rhythmic tension/stress that allows the individual to feel the presence of another, transforming resonance from a simple echo into a responsive relationship and vibratory medium (Hartmut Rosa). The title itself, “Offside”, represents an intense moment of tension in the natural course of the game, a positioning “error” that alters-obstructs the flow, forcing a re-evaluation within the group’s composition.

Text excerpts: Alex Radu, Curator

Represented works

3D Body Scans
Football Pitch Areas