malavika rao: are there roots where the ground trembles?

**_"are there roots where the ground trembles?"_** is a solo exhibition by malavika rao, featuring ceramics and patchwork installation that considers how a place becomes liveable when permanence is uncertain. The exhibition features a growing population of strange ceramic creature-dwellings: porous structures with alcoves, openings, chambers, and interiors that draw from dollhouses, earthen and adobe architecture, and vernacular building traditions. Though empty, the structures suggest that something has already lived there, or might be arriving. Patchwork installation made from inherited materials partially enclose the sculptures, transforming the gallery into a provisional dwelling, carrying traces of family, migration, and the making and remaking of home. The work imagines dwelling in a world shaped by ecological change, migration, and shifting relationships to place – where architecture is not simply something we inhabit, but something that might itself become a neighbor, a feeling, a creature, or a home in the making.