Exposure is often associated with visibility, with bringing something into the light. Yet exposure can also unsettle, exhaust, intensify, or transform. It may reveal what was hidden, but it can equally leave things vulnerable, unstable, or altered beyond recognition.
States of Exposure brings together works that engage with conditions of openness, pressure, and revelation across personal, material, environmental, and social dimensions. The exhibition considers exposure not as a singular moment, but as an ongoing state: a condition through which bodies, landscapes, memories, systems, and identities are continually shaped and reshaped.
Within the heightened atmosphere of contemporary life, marked by constant visibility, accelerated circulation, ecological precarity, and emotional intensity, exposure becomes both unavoidable and unevenly experienced. Some forms of exposure produce connection and recognition; others generate fragility, surveillance, displacement, or fatigue. Between concealment and disclosure, protection and vulnerability, the works in this exhibition trace the unstable boundaries through which experience is negotiated.
Artists are invited to approach the theme expansively. Exposure may emerge through material deterioration, fragmented narratives, atmospheric tension, digital mediation, bodily presence, political realities, architectural space, or shifting environmental conditions. It may appear in acts of resistance and endurance, or in quieter gestures of intimacy, sensitivity, and perception.
Rather than offering resolution, States of Exposure dwells within conditions of uncertainty and transition. It attends to what surfaces under pressure, what remains visible after rupture, and what continues to insist on presence despite erasure, saturation, or concealment.

The artists whose work features in this exhibition are: Claire Reed, Claudia Ungersbäck, Derek Pearce, Diana CÎrjaliu Meliu, Ed Hilton, Ellie Goodliffe, Fae Kilburn, Funmilayo Kayode, Joyce Aranuwa, Kate Izsak, Matthew Lewis, Miracle Okafor, Oleksandra Dashchak, Ryu Satake, Selma Eduarda Pereira, Seyda Alkin, Sharon Reeber, Sue Lynn, Temitope Ogunseitan, Ubah Matan, Why.Not.Me, Xiaoyang Meng.

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