Starting from the assumption that social processes mirror individual ones, and that the development and healing of the psyche go hand in hand with those of the collective body, Sarah Huber and Johanna Mangold engage with the role of rituals.

Rituals structure time and perception. They offer reliability, provide grounding, and foster a sense of community. They open up spaces in which collective and individual experiences can be held together—spaces in which consciousness shifts from analytical distance toward an immediate mode of experience, allowing events to be encountered not only cognitively but symbolically. Rituals are not understood here as rigid sequences, but as open structures that enable alternative forms of perception and connection. Mangold and Huber conceive of rituals as a symbolic practice, actions that mark transitions between inner and outer worlds.

The spatial installation WYRD, composed of sculptural elements, textile works, drawings, text, sound, and virtual reality, forms an open network that embraces both individual and collective resonances, interweaving bodily and imaginative experiences. The design of the space points to a longing for places in which inner movements can become visible and tangible - a need to allow hidden aspects of the psyche to emerge and to tell stories as a way of rediscovering a renewed connection to the world.

Johanna Mangold and Sarah Huber create poetic works that invite viewers to renegotiate the thresholds between reality and fiction, consciousness and dream, science and mysticism, and to playfully explore new possibilities of connection with themselves and the world.