Exhibitions
Topophilia (LOVE OF PLACE) Exhibition Launch
Topophilia gathers five artists whose artistic practices articulate the quiet power of noticing, reflecting, and responding to place ---with care. This exhibition is a soft celebration and consideration of space, self, and shared connection. How are we shaped by the systems that surround us? Socially, economically, politically, emotionally. Invisible structures envelop our daily lives, often without our noticing.
The work is interested in how complex systems move through us and around us, shaping belonging and identity, our resilience, and how we are often required to adapt to survive. However, alongside the systems we inherit are the counter-systems we continually co-create through care, empathy, and compassionate curiosity. These are the subtle, human-scale gestures that resist rigidity and allow connection to flow: listening, tending, noticing, responding.
Systems thinking reminds us that no element exists in isolation; a small shift in one part can ripple outward, affecting the whole. Within this exhibition, we play and wonder at how we might nudge the systems we inhabit. Topophilia becomes not only about place, but about how we live within complexity and our shared responsibility to one another within it. What unfolds is a subtle but potent defiance: a rejection definitions and judgement, and a reclamation of the spaces we inhabit.
