Curated by Navai Toly, the exhibition extends this maternal and body metaphor beyond the individual organism. Through these, dreamlike organic forms, the participating artists investigate how subjects are formed through systems of holding and exposure: familial memory, domestic space, collective history, fantasy, and the material environments that sustain or fail us. Their works do not simply represent care; they interrogate its conditions. What does it mean to be nourished? Who is permitted to feel safe? Which bodies are protected, and which are rendered available to extraction, neglect, or violence? How do we metabolize the absence of care, and how might we construct alternative forms of shelter? Artists in this show: 

•  Albert Choi •  Alex Parrasch  •  Alicia Wyneken  •  Amber Kruegel •  Chelsea Lenninger •  Courtney Colgan •  Eileen Mabini  •  Elysabeth Belle •  Emily Nguyen  •  Gina Lawson Egan  •  Jonathan Godinez  •  Joshua Kwon •  Justin Gonzalez  •  Khang Bao Nguyen  •  Lupe Aguirre  •  Maria Juncaj  •  Megan Geilman  •  Nada Fakhreddine  •  Nate Reevers  •  Odon Yrad  •  Rebecca Hamm  •  Sara Ajami  •  Sara Powell  •  Sumi Foley  •  Tara Tavi  •  Walpa D'Mark and Navai Toly