Sensory Exhibition - Soft Tether, Loud Bloom

Smell - Yuka Konno @miyavi_floristry
Sight - Daniel Lopéz Lomelí @daniellopezlomeli
Sound - Asuka @asukanaturallife

Opening Night
Thursday, 8 May 2025
6-8 PM 🥂

Exhibition run: 8 - 17 May 2025

Housed within the walls of 281 Clarence Street, a once-restrictive space, ‘Soft Tether, Loud Bloom’ reimagines the former police station as a site of transformation—where confinement yields to creation and constraint gives rise to life.

Soft Tether, Loud Bloom brings together four artists from distinct cultural practices, whose works explore themes of containment, emergence and renewal.
Japanese b. floriculture artist Yuka Konno of Miyavi Floristry harnesses the ephemerality of flowers, arranging them in a central dialogue with guest, Australian b. Shibori artist TBA, whose textile manipulations echo the umbilical cord—binding life and potential. The dyed and knotted fabric cradles the floral arrangements, evoking the womb as a vessel of both limitation and infinite possibility.

Mexican b. sculptor Daniel López Lomelí expands upon this exploration of form, casting structures that suggest both enclosure and expansion, the threshold between the past and the present. The tension of material and space reflects the history of the gallery itself—a place that once confined now nurtures artistic expression.

Resonating through this interplay is the immersive work of sound healer ASUKA, who employs Hertz frequencies to evoke transformation on a vibrational level. Their sonic landscapes, layered with breath and movement, mirror the rhythmic contractions of birth—both literal and metaphorical.

The exhibition is set to open as an immersive altar of renewal as Yuka Konno and Asuka collaborate in a live performance. Experience sonic sound waves, emerging from the echoes of what once was.

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