Mandy Franca's 'I Breathe an Endless Universe in Me' at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam

The Stedelijk Museum Schiedam presents 'I Breathe an Endless Universe in Me,' a solo exhibition by Rotterdam-based artist Mandy Franca. The show reframes breathing as a shared infrastructure rather than a purely biological process, emphasizing how air circulates across political, technological, and geographical divides. Through photography, painting, moving image, sound, and textile, Franca explores how intimacy, memory, and presence are shaped by systems connecting bodies and environments. The exhibition draws from the artist's personal digital archive, developed over years, to trace the invisible yet shared conditions of atmospheric circulation. Every breath carries particles from oceans, plants, infrastructures, and countless lives, binding humans and ecologies across planetary and historical time. Franca's work interrogates how air moves across borders that remain divided, yet connects all through shared conditions of circulation.