'Beyond a Certain Point There Is No Return' is the third exhibition in the series of collaborations between A Tale of A Tub and the imaginary collection of Tlön Projects. Taking its title from an aphorism by Franz Kafka, “Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached,” the exhibition puts into conversation artworks by artists from different regions and generations. Though titled with Kafka’s quote, the exhibition touches on the writer’s heritage only tangentially. Instead, it spins around the urgency to seize and make visible the “point of no return,” which has been overwhelming the world in the recent years, from pandemics to wars to climate change. But the term has many evocative senses and associations. It originates from air navigation terminology, where it means that an aircraft no longer has enough fuel to return to its point of departure. “Point of no return” signifies a critical juncture, an irrevocable shift, an impossibility of return. 'Beyond a Certain Point There Is No Return' revolves around a crisis of awareness, and a crisis of action. The artworks by a.o. Niklas Goldbach, Pere Llobera, Vittorio Santoro, Dora García, Martine Stig, Wilfredo Prieto, Otobong Nkanga, Amalia Pica and Elmgreen & Dragset in the show are brought together in search of spaces and temporalities that refer to this evasive and difficult to seize point, which manifests itself more through absence than presence.