co-Habitat

1 Nov – 20 Dec 2025

While the world continues to heave itself into an ever-expanding digital
era, our place in nature evolves, as nature continues to carve its
place within ours. For centuries, the natural world has influenced human
life by shaping cultures, providing resources, and guiding patterns of
settlement. Yet, in the post-industrial age, our role is no longer to
simply adapt to our environments; we actively construct, control, and
often confine them. This evolving relationship can be traced through the
spaces we inhabit, the ones we long for, and the ones we create in
resistance to displacement. Much like a traveler in search of a new home
or a potted houseplant moving across lands, space becomes a site of
negotiation, between survival and growth, between belonging and
detachment, between roots and routes.

This negotiation with the
environment is one of survival. Plants bend toward light, stretch roots
toward water, and alter their growth to suit the spaces they inhabit.
Forests shift in composition after fire or flood, wetlands absorb excess
water, and ecosystems reorganize to maintain balance. Even a single
potted houseplant reflects this adaptability in how it responds to
sunlight, humidity, and the boundaries of its container. To survive in a
space is the overcoming of change and yet sometimes we have to fight
for change to achieve space.

The struggle for space is a fight
for environmental justice, for the rights to accessible housing and safe
public spaces, and for the rights to cultivate growth and creativity.
Jung’s work throughout her drawing series, “Price of Sunlight,” allows
us a window (literally) into how space can be observed. With elements of
visibility, privacy, and belonging all interacting on a windowsill,
people—much like plants—live as victims to the greater systems in place
that can result in inequalities which affect quality of life. Space
acts, then, as a medium of survival, and the act of fighting for it
affirms the value of life, identity, and connection across all living
beings.

– Sandra Rushdy