In its original meaning, nameless dread is about an individual experience of deep anguish at the beginning of life. Connected to the perception of overwhelming helplessness, it can leave lasting scars.

In this exhibition, we reappropriate the term to consider how this feeling manifests in the social realm today, as seen through the eyes of four young artists. They reflect on how this 'dread', linked to permanent instability, takes on different forms and causes us to feel a sense of impossibility of agency in the face of it.

We are challenged at different moments by cyborgs that remind us of the materiality of the digital, natural flows that resist human action, the ruins of an industrial era and billboards that question our right to access public space. They engage us in dialogue about memory, involvement and resistance in a context where old and new ghosts try to sow despair and paralysis.