COPENHAGEN.- Simian announced two exhibitions: a group show organised by independent curator Fabian Flückiger in dialogue with Simian, and a solo exhibition by Canadian artist Moyra Davey.

Additionally presenting Extended Views, a film program, in collaboration between KADIST and Simian. The video works are selected from the KADIST collection by Flückiger and Davey in relation to their respective exhibitions.

Against a backdrop of global unrest and fading post-war promises of progress, prosperity, and peace, the group exhibition Emotional Terrains of Change turns its focus to how humans, as individuals and societies, navigate transformation. Drawing inspiration from the writings of Johannes V. Jensen and Octavia E. Butler, the exhibition proposes to consider change not only as inevitable, but also as a potentially powerful source of agency.

The large-scale works by Leda Bourgogne, Rafik Greiss, Pakui Hardware, Rindon Johnson, Amitai Romm and Bjarke Hvass Kure investigate shihs in body and psyche brought about by technological developments, climate change, and political upheaval. At the core are emotional responses to changing social dynamics; the inner experience amidst external disruption. Offering a fragmented yet resonant portrait of the present, Emotional Terrains of Change calls upon the power of collective imagination to nurture emotional resilience and to re-envision the future with a renewed sense of human depth and possibility.

Engaged with forms of photography, filmmaking, and authorship, Moyra Davey’s practice is marked by an ardent, sustained inquiry – in particular towards the chronicles and contributions of fellow historical figures across these fields of creation – and a reflexive posture towards the artist’s own implication as a maker within these trajectories.

Four [чотири] (2025), Davey’s latest film, focuses on a quartet of artists and writers of Ukrainian descent, some celebrated and others lesser-known, and weaves together fragmentary retellings of their biographies through her characteristic asynchronous approach to combining images and language. Similarly, Horse Opera (2019–2022) is under-pinned by a text rich in eclectic artistic references and stories of New York City nightlife, and recited by Davey herself.

The narration recounts its protagonist, Elle, making her way through the city’s dance culture, while the image track imparts the social lives of horses, birds, and other animals in a rural setting. Alongside these two films, the exhibition features folded and mailed photo-works from roughly the past decade, as well as a new arrangement, 2HB (2025), addressed and posted to Simian. The exhibition also includes a selection of black & white photographs, many of which stem from Davey’s ongoing study of the artistic legacy of Peter Hujar.

Extended Views offers audiences a way to engage with the exhibitions through the medium of film. The works selected reflect the themes of the two exhibitions: Flückiger’s program addresses the increasingly rapid and disruptive transformations of the world addresses the increasingly rapid and disruptive transformations of the world, exploring how artists navigate change through their interactions with people, places, and collective histories. Davey’s selections build on her artistic dialogue with David Wojnarowicz and Marion Scemama, combining image and language to explore memory, autobiography, collaboration, and the layering of personal and cultural narratives.

KADIST is a non-profit contemporary art organization. Representing artists from more than one hundred countries, its collection affirms contemporary art’s role within social discourse, and facilitates new connections across cultures. With the collection as a starting point and its local hubs in Paris and San Francisco, KADIST organizes on-site and online exhibitions, programs as well as residencies and develops international collaborations. This collaboration is part of KADIST’s ongoing international program Double Takes, which activates film and video works through physical and online presentations at partner institutions and on KADIST.tv.