When a crisis arrives – be it viral, climatic, or entirely speculative – something curious happens: humanity reveals its inner prepper. At the edge of reason and survival, the instinct to hoard, to mimic, to improvise takes over. Loot & Loaf, an exhibition by the collective mutant Maker (Eunji Song, Jiwon Song, Junson Park, Yiming Wang, Yiyuan Zhang, Zihan Teng), surveys the post-apocalyptic imaginary not as mere catastrophe, but as fertile ground for rethinking movement, value, sustenance, and the art of survival.
[…] The exhibition poses no singular apocalypse but rather evokes the plural futures imagined by game players, doomsday planners, and artists alike. If we are to loaf at the end of the world, perhaps we must first learn how – and what – to loot.