From Transylvania to Budapest, the artists explore the tension between belonging and displacement, rootedness and longing. An elderly couple gazes over the lake; a neuron rises to meet them, its branches simultaneously beckoning them home and marking the unbridgeable distance of the surreal.

The curse of disease lies in the cooption of beneficial processes for malignant ends. Here, neural disorders are mirrored in an urban setting. A Boston high-rise trembles with Parkinson’s — its floors still functioning but no longer connected.

A distinct constructivist visual language depicts the formative processes that mold our minds. Bauhaus-inspired compositions pay homage to Moholy-Nagy, freezing neurodevelopment into geometric stillness. On New York fire escapes, the roles reverse: biology escapes its frame, neurons probing iron and brick as if the city itself were a substrate for growth.

In New York, the threads converge. A neuron climbs the bridge cables, its branches organizing into the beginnings of a network, a system reaching toward connection. The city becomes what it has always been: not scaffold alone, nor organism alone, but the space where the crack opens and life moves in.