"The Preservation of Fire" approaches cultural preservation not as the static display of artefacts, but as an active practice. Developed in close collaboration with the Akha community, the works re-enact forms of dwelling, craftsmanship, and ritual that are increasingly at risk of disappearanceforegrounding practice as the condition through which culture endures.Spanning two floors, the installation unfolds as both a physical and cosmological cross-section. A field of textiles below and a reconstructed Akha house above form a vertical structure between life and memory, between the realms of the living and the dead.
The exhibition is on view through 1 November 2026.