At the Saatchi Gallery in London, Domestic Relics brings together a group of contemporary artists around a theme that is only apparently everyday. The exhibition looks at the domestic space as an emotional archive, a place where objects, surfaces and minimal gestures become repositories of memory, transforming private experience into visual material. The exhibition is grounded in the idea that the home is not a neutral space, but an environment shaped by layers of time. The artists involved explore what remains of lived experience, not as linear memory but as residue, fragment and trace. Fabrics, bodies, images and forms evoke personal stories that shift over time, oscillating between intimacy and symbolic construction. The works on display employ a range of languages, from painting and sculpture to hybrid practices that resist clear classification. In each case, the domestic is treated as an unstable field, where the familiar loses its original function to take on narrative value. Everyday objects and ordinary situations are isolated, repeated or transformed, revealing their ability to condense emotions, absences and relationships. Across the exhibition, a shared reflection emerges on the ways in which the past continues to surface in the present through minimal signs. Memory is not presented as nostalgia, but as an active process made up of erasures, rewritings and overlaps. The title Domestic Relics points precisely to this condition: relics without monumentality, traces that do not seek to fix a truth but to suggest a fragile continuity between what has been and what remains.
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