Weaving the Unseen explores care as a material and relational condition sustained through physical labour, repetition, and quiet negotiation. Moving across painting, textile installation, and bronze sculpture, the exhibition traces how small, often overlooked gestures of maintenance and support accumulate over time, forming structures that hold relational life together.
 
The works take shape through processes of arranging, painting, sewing, scanning, printing and casting, translating flexible and ephemeral actions into forms marked by tension, endurance, and weight. Rather than monumentalizing care, these material shifts make perceptible its persistence—how forms lean, press, deform, and sustain one another through proximity and contact.
 
In this exhibition, care is both materially articulated and quietly operative: a force that circulates between bodies and materials, supporting and filling the spaces between them.

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