The Future of Belonging is Displacement is a temporary intervention on the exterior and interior of the Kabinett that engages the neglected and sometimes hostile demeanour of urban space. Meyer’s installation invites the viewer to pause and reconsider familiar objects whose ubiquity and value have been reimagined and assembled into surreal sculptures.

The installation takes inspiration from Indigenous feminist scholar Michelle Murphy’s conception of the ‘alterlife’, the historical price of altered land, and the entanglement of the human body with urban fabric. As public space continues to come under threat, hostile architecture becomes more ubiquitous. Places become non-places, dwellings are rendered inhospitable, and not only are the unhoused evicted, but even the birds.

Homes are replaced by cement and feelings of estrangement. In the exhibition, the home is evoked as a locus for uncanny disturbances and emotional repressions, for example by a tangled curtain constructed with eggshells. The tension between the formalised exterior and delicate, intricate interior evokes the inherent dualism and incompatibility between inside/outside, online/offline, prohibition and desire.

Passersby are invited to feel something – anything, as a message from the artist conveys longing to feel love in the home that they live in. Facing humanity’s porous and uneasy existence head-on, Meyer employs vulnerability and insists on retaining physical space: because, against all odds, belief in what remains of communities is what prevails.