At Parallel Vienna 2025 Art fair Brenner-Havelka-Plessl were presenting their Projects Broken-yet-holding and Straitjacket. The works center on depression and mental health as lived, embodied realities. Through processes of fragmentation, rupture, and reconstruction, the works reflect states of inner conflict and transformation. The self appears torn apart, stripped of internalized stigma, and reassembled in new constellations - an attempt to reclaim agency and articulate what often remains unspoken.

The choice of the Otto Wagner Areal is deliberate. As a site historically connected to psychiatric care, it carries an institutional memory that resonates with the exhibition’s themes. These site-specific references open a dialogue between past and present, questioning how mental health is perceived, framed, and made visible today.

The exhibition brings together drawing, printmaking, installation, and text-based elements, creating a dense visual and emotional landscape. Repetition, distortion, and layering function as strategies to approach the complexity of mental states and their expression.