Chantia Malaja: Matter of Care

Exhibition within the Homanity project

Matter of Care is an exhibition that reflects on home as a process rather than a form. Chantia examines how space becomes home through care, repetition, and the gradual enclosing of what is fragile and difficult to define.

The works consist of vertical, semi-transparent panels containing fragments of milky, slightly scorched foam. The material functions as a filling rather than a structure, symbolizing what is invisible yet essential within a home: warmth, protection, and intention.

The exhibition is a continuation of Chantia’s earlier project Pearl, in which she explored long-term, often painful processes of forming layers around an incomprehensible core. In Matter of Care, this same logic is transferred to the scale of space and human relations.

Here, home emerges from what we gather and carry with us — from fragments of the world we decide to make our own. Especially in the pre-holiday period,…