[TARWUK] A COUNTRY THAT STOPPED EXISTING
Walk into the ground-floor gallery at White Cube's Mason's Yard and you cannot find one place to stand and see everything. The central assemblage — the artists call it a "harmonic percolator" — keeps changing meaning as you move around it. There is no correct angle. That refusal to hold still is not a formal trick. It is close to autobiography. TARWUK is the shared name of Bruno Pogačnik Tremow and Ivana Vukšić, born the same year, 1981, in two different Croatian cities — Zagreb and Dubrovnik — into a country that would not exist by the time they finished growing up. Both came of age during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. Since 2014 they have worked as a single artistic entity under one name. They call it, simply, a "condition." The new large-scale canvas anchoring this show — titled, in TARWUK's signature mirrored lettering, MRTISKLAAH_ećšiloduČ (2026) — makes that instability visible on the surface itself. Figures dissolve into one another mid-gesture...