*Excerpt from the curatorial text:

The final work, Lararium, anchors the exhibition with a quiet monumentality. Composed as a curtain cast entirely in concrete, it hangs from a rod made of metal rebar, materials typically associated with structural permanence and exteriority.

Installed against a wall with no window, the piece evokes a familiar domestic gesture while simultaneously denying its function. There is no outside to

reveal, no light to filter through. Instead, the curtain becomes an object suspended between promise and obstruction.

Referencing the visual phenomena of concrete panel architecture, Lararium draws on the language of collective housing while reframing it as an

intimate, interior element, a “softscape” rendered in a material that refuses softness. This contradiction sits at the core of the work: the tension be-

tween the desire for comfort and the persistence of external hardness. It gestures toward a space that should offer refuge, yet remains impenetrable.