This Particular Place

Group Exhibition

7 - 17 Jun 2024, 11am to 7pm

A year ago a pop-up exhibition in a flea market, Code Switch, brought together a group of artists who were looking at different ways of dwelling and being in a changing city. Three of the artists have since relocated overseas. As displacement becomes an embodied way of being, the artists continue to delve into experiences of spaces as intersection and displacement. The philosopher Henri Lefebvre highlighted the differences in how physical spaces are thought, experienced, and seen. There exists an intersection between the three respective spaces of feeling, intending, and seeing. The spaces around us shape our behaviour, thus leading us to form perceptions, which, in turn, define our experiences of those spaces. Personal deep dives into our own psyche unearth the stories we tell ourselves about our own dwellings. Transitions reflect the compressed nature of our contemporary lives, where large distances…