The group exhibition “The Life of Things: Four Reflections on Precarious Objects”explores the transition of the object from inert mass to raw material, expressive tool and artifact. At the same time it attempts to study the role of the object and its relation to ideas of precarity, the ephemeral and the everyday, through four related yet radically different approaches and perspectives. The exhibition includes works by four remarkable young artists and looks at the way in which materials describe, hinder, disturb or interfere with social norms, how they carry meaning and emerge as order mechanisms or as crude, revolutionary formations. Remnants, ephemeral compositions, readymades, industrial trash and natural objects that have suffered the ravages of time come together in an eclectic combination of materials and processes that draw on a range of associations and understandings.