Soft Reset
15th Jan - 15th Mar 2025
Soho Revue, 14 Greek St, W1D 4DP
Baby Universe, 2025. part of Soft Reset. video: Tom Carter.
Soft Reset asks how we can face big, shifting futures with the same gentleness we give each other—through care, courage, and connection. The mobile Baby Universe is made of pieces named after people I love, and the two paintings beside it are portraits of the relationships that have grounded me through years of research.
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I research the illusory nature of perception and its influence on our self-concept. Now, with AI reshaping our understanding of consciousness, and interplanetary life around the corner, Soft Reset asks how we can face these new horizons with courage rather than fear. How can we reconcile what we feel with what we can measure and name?
The central mobile Baby Universe represents the hypnagogic space between waking and sleeping, when consciousness softens and something else seeps in with ease and without effort. Rather than making grand proclamations about our future, Baby Universe creates a protective bubble for wonder, like a drift that feels both vast and somehow safe. Each individual piece of it is affectionately named after someone in my life.
The title of the show is a suggestion for how to approach change through gentle recalibration instead of rupture. The words “Soft Reset” also represent computation not as cold circuitry but as nature's own method—life itself as an ongoing process of pattern-recognition and subtle adaptation. Symmetries and paired forms throughout the exhibition trace these recurring patterns—cellular architectures, cosmic arrangements, neural pathways, abstract reasoning. In weaving these together, the work seeks to reconcile seemingly disparate realms of biology, philosophy, prayer, and embodied experience.
Among these larger questions we return to softness, to the importance of holding space for our human scale and needs. Our readiness for tomorrow lives not only in technological hardness but in our capacity for gentle attention, for expanding our self-understanding while maintaining our essential tenderness.