Folly | Façade: Navigating contradictions of urban experience through the gendered body

Folly | Façade explores contradictions inherent within urban environments shaped by capitalism, interrogating tensions between functionality and illusion, structure and decay. Grounded in the embodied experience of walking alone in the city, the exhibition follows the perspective of the flâneuse, drawing on Feminist Punk and Arte Povera, to examine the material and emotional landscapes of urban life. Polaroids and ephemeral sculptural installations highlight precariousness, power and façades that mask instability. Through architectural forms or follies that relate to the gendered body, the work here critiques how we navigate public space, exposing the constraints imposed by capitalist design. The interplay of light and dark space within the exhibition reflects the city’s circadian rhythm, uncovering what is hidden beneath its glossy exterior. Folly | Façade: Navigating Contradictions of Urban Experience through the Gendered Body walks you through the exhibition, like a guided tour, inviting viewers and readers to consider urban space not as neutral, but as a site of struggle and reappropriation, where identity, emotion and resistance are embedded.