Domestic Animal

Baudrillard wrote that a collection is defined precisely by its incompleteness. The act of collecting elevates an ordinary item to an object of value; yet, once detached from the collection, the object loses this significance. Humans strive to create a seamless world, but the completion of a collection would be equivalent to the symbolic death of the collector.

Drawing on the myth of the Moirai, who determine the lives of mortals, this exhibition gathers works that engage with the archive, memory, incompleteness, and the sense of being „unhoused“ in the world. The three Fates were the daughters of Night, fathered by Zeus. One spun the thread of life, the next measured it, and the third severed it when it was time to depart.

If one views the world as a collection of everything that exists, our identity is an accumulation of memories and experiences, but also of material objects. How does one archive these objects that constitute a life but only hold meaning for specific people? Isolated from their container—the home—they lose their status as beloved items.

Identity is an ongoing process in which we absorb and discard experiences. Similarly, in knitting, stitch follows stitch. The knitted fabric is permeable. Here, incompleteness is not a defect, but a condition of the form itself. A completion would defeat its purpose. Does the meaning, then, lie in the collection or in its incompleteness?

For H.B.

Opening: May 14, 2026, 6 PM – 9 PM
Gallery Hours: May 15 – 24, 2026 | Thu – Sun, 3 PM – 6 PM