BAD Cola will be a permanent feature at the new exhibition space of Arcade Gallery, which combines a kitchen and gallery, and our drinks will be both refreshments and art.
More information about the exhibition from Arcade Gallery‘s Press Release:
The exhibition does not take a single position. Instead, it opens an ecology of approaches. Some works are immediate; others unfold slowly. What connects them is not a unified aesthetic, but an attention to how art might hold space; for dreaming, for critique, for delight.
In Our Hands recognises that intimacy and resistance, ornament and function, beauty and utility are not opposing forces but materials to work with. Imagination here is not ornamental in the reductive sense, it is strategic. Art, in this frame, is speculative, generative, and often difficult. It proposes not-yet-realised possibilities and insists on keeping space open for futures not yet formed, even as social, cultural, and economic pressures work to close them down.
This is not a retreat from the world, but a commitment to engaging it more fully, and differently. Artists are not asked to conform to fixed models of value, but to propose new ones, whether by holding power to account or expanding the possibilities of cultural progress. We believe creativity can reorient how we relate, to each other, to institutions, and to a world in flux.
The title In Our Hands speaks to both artistic labour and collective responsibility. It reminds us that culture, and the futures it might help shape, are not handed down, but built from the ground up, through grassroots effort, shared imagination, and mutual care. What we make, what we carry forward, and what we choose to let go; these are decisions we hold in common.
