SNAPSHOTS #7:
Transition Through Transmissionwith Innavisions
September 18th – November 21st, 2026
Metro54 is pleased to present Snapshots #7: Transition Through Transmission, a new work by artist and designer: Innavisions.
At the heart of Transition through Transmission lies the question of how knowledge, memories, and cultural expression are passed to the next generation within Black diasporic lifeworlds. Innavisions connects spiritual, cosmic, and African diasporic forms of knowledge with his visual language. The exhibition brings together works from different periods of Innavisions’ practice, moving between sound, installations, and artworks. The space unfolds through the frameworks of day and night, two distinct energies emerging: colour, pattern, sound, and image advance and recede.
On music, sound and movement
In Transition through Transmission music continues to be the blueprint for Innavision's artistic process. Specifically, Improvisitional music informs his use of rhythm, repetition, improvisation and movement. He translates these elements into colour and composition, allowing sound and image to move in tandem. Movement is crucial to Innavisions. It is not just as dancing, but can be understood as the body being in an ongoing conversation with music, connecting it to African spiritual traditions, where movement becomes a way of being in contact. Listening, moving, and vibing are different ways to locate oneself within a longer genealogy of transmission. Innavisions echoes this in the ways his artworks transform through music, signifying time, space, lifeworlds, and relationships.
Colour, process, and time
Rather than presenting chronologically, the show follows threads that have been present throughout Innavisions’ practice, with colours echoing in the space and earlier works displayed alongside newer compositions, revealing a visual language in constant evolution. Showcasing how colour is an (im)material storyteller that moves subtly throughout Innavisions’ practice, establishing a mood and attuning the viewer. Colour shifts into position, disappearing and returning, evoking emotions as it reconfigures itself through the work. Innavisions often starts with a wide palette that informs patterns and combinations of black and white. In other instances, the movement is reversed. Zooming in while zooming out—seen from a distance, each composition contains another composition when approached more closely. Fragments open into new layers, colours become patterns, and patterns shape-shift into abstract matter or space. Each work is a portal to another dimension through colour, lines, shapes, and sound.
Day and Night
The exhibition extends this way of thinking into space, presenting the space itself as an energetic composition: a world that visitors enter and move through. It is divided into two realms: day and night. Day and night are not presented as opposites but as two different frequencies through which the same visual language can be encountered. In the world of day, colour comes forward through visibility, intensity, and contrast. Certain tones become more immediate, as if moving towards the surface. In the world of night, colour behaves differently. In the world of night, colour behaves differently, becoming deeper, more layered, and more atmospheric, asking the eye to adjust and spend time within the work.
About Innavisions
Innavisions is a self-taught artist and music selecta whose practice has an analytical approach towards art, music and movement. In the early 2000s Innavisions co-founded the influential underground club-night and art platform in Rotterdam, Da Circle of Sole. In 2012, Innavisions co-founded Ultra de la Rue, an artist-run art space in the Red Light District in Amsterdam.
Central to Innavisions practice is his long-time collaboration with architect Afaina de Jong. With their first major work, City of the Sun, made for Metro 54/Tent Rotterdam in 2017 and their spatial installation Space of Other for 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, Innavisions’ visual aesthetic merged with De Jong’s spatial sensibilities into a form language for diasporic life and counterculture. Recently, they have expanded their collaboration, into the development of sonic archives for De Jong’s spatial installations Kinship Library (NDSM, 2025) and Untold Future (Sonsbeek, 2026).
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