In The Floor Is Lava; The Walls Have Ears, play, absurdity, and participation become ways of navigating pain, displacement, and resistance, inviting visitors into a series of works that unsettle familiar understandings of history, memory, and power.

UK artist Amarachi Muotoh brings perspectives from her lived experiences in Nigeria, her humanoid bronze lizard sculptures inhabit the gallery as enigmatic "displaced residents." Wandering through the space, these figures embody ruptures in cultural memory while quietly pointing to ongoing conversations around restitution, belonging, and the afterlives of colonial collections.

Their presence guides visitors through participatory works that encourage movement, interaction, and reflection. The works invite audiences to attend to overlooked histories, revolutionary voices, and collective memories that have been omitted from official narratives, asking whose stories are remembered and whose are deliberately silenced.

The Netherlands-based artists Morris Bouwman and Taiyi Yu use childlike playground toys that are transformed into sculptural interventions that…