Experience 'Load-bearing Walls': An Exhibition by Daria Khozhai Exploring Memory and Trauma in Architecture

The exhibition 'Load-bearing Walls' by Daria Khozhai features dollhouse-scale architectural models exploring how spaces absorb emotional and historical trauma. Khozhai's work transforms architectural language into one of memory and mourning, using miniature reconstructions of homes marked by loss and displacement.

‘Load-bearing Walls’ at Arcam showcases a series of dollhouse-scale architectural models by Ukrainian artist and architect Daria Khozhai. Her practice intricately combines art, architecture, and psychology to investigate how spaces absorb and retain emotional and historical trauma, re-envisioning architectural language as a vehicle for memory and mourning. The exhibition presents miniature reconstructions of environments that once existed or are planned to exist at human scale, each embodying a place burdened by memory—homes scarred by violence, loss, displacement, and silence. These models are constructed from elements such as therapy journals, worn fabrics, family relics, and fragments of domestic life, translating deeply personal experiences into tangible spatial forms. Within ‘Load-bearing Walls,’ the intensely personal converges with the political, and the miniature takes on monumental significance. Each structure serves as both a home and a wound, an embodiment of emotional architecture that carries the invisible weight of what has been lost, yet continues to endure.

Tickets for the exhibition can be purchased via the provided link. A special event, 'An Afternoon with Daria Khozhai', is scheduled for December 12, 2025, with an RSVP required through a Google Form link.