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Beneath them lie fragments of antiquity: Roman artifacts excavated from the soil, symbols of a fixed, monumental past. Mutu stages a contrast between the subterranean and the aerial, between the weight of history and the weightlessness of flight. Some birds appear bound by thread-like elements, as if entangled in their own potential escape. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ndege<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reframes the entrance as a symbolic threshold\u2014a space of becoming, where time folds and histories remain unsettled. The work proposes a different temporality\u2014one where memory hovers, the past remains porous, and the future has not yet landed.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ndege, Swahili for \u201cbird,\u201d is a suspended flock of hybrid forms that occupies the liminal space of the portico\u2014neither fully inside nor outside\u2014reimagining it as a space of passage and transformation. Caught mid-air, the birds hover in a state of suspension\u2014neither in flight nor at rest\u2014suggesting the tension between captivity and release. 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