NISO is pleased to present The Exit Shut Opened, Martina Quesada’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery, curated by Philippa zu Knyphausen.

THE EXIT SHUT OPENED

A conversation in two different frames.

- INT. GALLERY

A conversation unfolds against the backdrop of an exhibition. The artist, Martina Quesada, is absent. Instead, two curators—Philippa zu Knyphausen and Christian Dominguez— engage in a dialogue. It takes the form of a theatrical script: two voices, two acts, a shared arc. Much like the exhibition itself, this dialogue doesn’t seek to define the work. Instead, it unravels it—through perception, through exchange. Act One and Act Two; Room One and Room Two; Character One and Character Two: these parallel structures guide the visitor through the cognitive and sensory transitions of the exhibition. Unlike Sartre’s No Exit, these rooms move toward an ending: a gently unfolding uncertainty, where conflict softens into unresolved acceptance.