Lisa Braid; Chun; Magdalena Herzog; Alina Kunitsyna; Chris Oh; Maximilian Prüfer; Zayn Qahtani; Julia Szczerbowska; Curtis Talwst Santiago; Leonard Železo

A House the Size of a Shell brings together artists who use small-scale formats to create concentrated, self-contained scenes. Taking its title from the writer Gaston Bachelard, the exhibition explores how small spaces can hold entire worlds of memory and imagination. These works operate at a scale that invites proximity and careful looking.

In miniature, details become heightened: a gesture, a surface, the relationship between one object and another. The viewer is asked to adjust their pace, to come nearer, to look longer. The small becomes a tool for intimacy and for holding complexity in a contained space. As Susan Sontag observed, we are drawn to the miniature as a way of keeping something close as a form of attachment, a wish to stay near. These works propose that the world can be assembled from fragments, that vastness can be felt in something that fits in the palm of a hand.