OVEREXPOSED
To exhibit work is to accept the risk of exposure—in all its messiness and irresolution. This show celebrates the vulnerability of surrendering unfinished work to the public eye.
The exhibition's spatial language amplifies this condition. A plush black platform sits at the gallery's center—somewhere between autopsy table and runway. Models are overlit with ring lights, composed alongside cinderblocks and hazard tape. These elements construct a scene where architecture exists simultaneously as process and product, where the provisional becomes performative.
“OVEREXPOSED” explores our contemporary condition of perpetual visibility, where digital saturation has normalized constant exposure yet heightened our distrust of images. The ring lights don't simply illuminate—they overexpose, creating a condition where seeing becomes questioning, where clarity and fragility emerge together.
The show doesn't resolve the tension between concealment and revelation—it stages it. In this suspended state, we find architecture's most honest condition: always both backstage and in full view, vulnerable to the public gaze yet powerful in its insistence on being seen.
Exhibitions Committee: Kyriakos Kyriakou (chair), Patrick Danahy, Michael Moynihan, Juana Salcedo, Liv Pineda, Hunter Hellinger
Student Team: Grace Alexander, Chloe Fritsche, Royce Velasco, Thomas Luke Slay, Henry Farris, Ryan Kunu, Madison Peloquin, Suhas Aleti, Aleida Villasana
Special Thanks: Heather Woofter, Kory Bieg, Andrea Nelson, Anya Mitchell, Charles Carpenter, Lauren Crowe, Maria Carlsen, Monika Hill, Susan Eason, Geoffrey Ashford, Patrick Miller
