How much can be held within a small form?
This exhibition begins with the notion of compacity: the condition of being dense, bound, contained. Across philosophy, aesthetics, and lived experience, compactness has signaled both wholeness and limit: a flower whose proportions calm the eye (Kant), a single sentence that gestures toward infinity (Wittgenstein), a finite proof that secures an infinite world (Gödel), a body that both grounds and opens perception (Merleau-Ponty).

The works assembled here explore what it means to press the infinite into the finite. They ask:

What happens when excess is compressed into form?

How do fragments sustain wholeness?

When does containment become sufficiency, and when does it become pressure?

In a time of overwhelming scale and sprawling networks, Compacity foregrounds gestures of reduction, condensation, and intensity. These are not minimalist gestures of erasure, but rather strategies of holding much in little: compressing narratives, sensations, or histories into compact vessels.

Visitors are invited to consider the compact as a paradoxical space:

a bound form that suggests expansiveness,

a dense object that holds openness,

a finite frame that gestures toward what cannot be fully contained.