Documentation from the opening of Materials and Processes for an Expanding World, a Soft Systems group exhibition presented Dec. 11–13, 2025, in collaboration with Plot in Los Angeles. Works on paper, sculpture, ephemera, and video, submitted through the mail.
Exhibition Statement:
Tectonic plates shift beneath the ocean, signals shoot across seas, ideas leap from head to head, era to era. Everything that blooms eventually deflates; heat cools down, stars faint, waves roll back to the sea.
Art’s the same. Sometimes it cracks, sometimes it’s quiet. Ideas appear, then disappear. Concepts grow, then peel away. Meaning changes shape but still leaves a trace behind.
Materials and Processes for an Expanding World reflects the ways artists create their own universes through movement, experiment, and intentional accidents. What’s inside the exhibition? Performances, unfinished works, temporary objects, sketches, doodles, notes, observations, and everyday things that might seem unimportant yet hold small universes within them.
Featuring contributions from:
Leah Sandler, Jiayun Chen, Mae Bishop, Yusuf Shamma, Bz Zhang, Ika Pearl, Drew Villanueva, Beck Corrigan, Daniel Milanese, Luciana Varkulja, Hypothetical Star, Margaret Oakley, Y. Waffle, Vivien Adamian, G. Laster, Alkaid Ramirez, Brigid O’Neil, Noelle Whitaker, Zoey Solomon, Vanessa Norton, Anabelle Lee Dehm, Wonderful Cringe, Parham Ghalamdar, TAITAIxTina, Araceli Zuniga, Austin Reilly, Madeleine Soich, Jules Garder, Yi Cynthia Chen, Lara DiBlasio, Zhizi Wu, D. Wibowo, Se Young Au, olivier.
Photo credit
@aliceyuanzhang 
