A Place That Fades interrogates the disappearance of urban domestic green spaces and the broader cultural, psychological and ecological implications of this loss. It reflects on the tension between permanence and impermanence, between presence and absence. The work explores the private garden as a site of both personal and collective memory - an ephemeral archive of lived experiences, shifting ecologies and transient refuges. As urbanisation encroaches upon these spaces, the loss is not merely physical but existential, disrupting systems of care, biodiversity and spatial agency.
Drawing from posthumanist discourse, the exhibition suggests destabilising anthropocentric narratives by foregrounding the garden as a liminal site that exists beyond human control. It considers the cohabitation of the human and non-human, the micro-ecologies that emerge within these spaces and the spectral presence of what remains when such refuges are erased. In doing so, it critiques contemporary conditions of alienation from the natural world, questioning how this affects notions of belonging, sensory engagement and environmental consciousness.