The world is being tested. This is not the declare The End (though that has certainly been the sentiment lately), but is an observation. We are being tested ecologically, institutionally and socially, but this test is also revealing much about our capabilities for empathy. This exhibition is a contemplation of the current relationships that we hold with the systems around us, most specifically the ones that we cannot see but are deeply felt by society. The world has watched this year begin with many environmental disasters which devastated communities, before the outbreak of COVID-19 shook the world and its economics to its knees, spreading fear as it also revealed our resilience. Now, as BLM dominates the media, we can no longer ignore that we are, and always have been, facing a different kind of pandemic. These events speak to a shift in our social climates as much as they reveal a very delicate one, and we are being forced to confront how fragile they have been in the first place.

This project aims to explore systems of care, beginning by challenging curatorial and institutional methodologies, before translating into the structures outside of us. What does it look like to curate with care? How can this teach us to extend care to one another? This exhibition will take the form of an exhibition as a public intervention as well as a communal space, to allow this to be contextualised outside of the gallery to understand the urgency and relevancy of systems of care for us all.