Helvetika 1575 presents After Attention, a two-person exhibition that brings works by Marina Abramović and Márta Kucsora into a shared frame that treats attention as material and the body as its conduit. The titular moment holds onto a specific interval, namely the moment after concentration releases and before perception settles into its next rhythm. With Abramović’s photography and Kucsora’s works on canvas, both drawn from various series across each artist’s practice, the exhibition stays with Nachklang, the lingering vibration that remains once an intense encounter has slipped into the past tense yet is still immediate enough to leave a physical imprint. In Marina Abramović’s photographic works, the after is inseparable from the fact that the initiating act has already happened. Performance continues through the still image as a carried remainder, a form that preserves the pressure of practiced presence and transmits it beyond the site of the original event. Sometimes the photograph functions as the portable life of an action, sometimes the action is made for the camera, so the photographic object becomes its own completed work.

Márta Kucsora reaches her “after” through a studio process that is performative in its structure. Her series of vibrant, large-scale abstract paintings are meticulously planned over long stretches, then made in a burst of intensity that carries the intensity of a one-time action. The canvases lie on the ground, and she works brushless, moving around, pouring and spraying layers of paint, working both with and against time and gravity. She changes the tempo by adding materials that delay or accelerate what happens next, then decides when the “dance” ends.

Marina Abramović’s photography and Márta Kucsora’s painting meet in a performative logic. After Attention brings these practices into alignment through their shared insistence on an act that cannot be repeated on the same terms. Abramović fixes the remainder into photographic objects that continue to circulate while holding the force of concentrated attention. Kucsora fixes the remainder into painted surfaces that preserve the instant the material was stopped. The initiating moment has passed, and the work continues to hold its charge, still vibrating–after attention.