Being Within investigates spatial ambiguity and material agency, while exploring space and place as symbiotic entities. It examines Architecture as both a boundary and a permeable interface, as it takes inspiration from membranes in nature: biological structures that simultaneously divide the space and filter their environment. With this work, the artist translates the materiality of skin and plasmatic membranes into an exploration of walls, surfaces, and spatial enclosures as living interfaces. Through this interplay, Being Within encourages a reconsideration of space as an active, living structure: one that breathes, listens and reacts.

In the same way natural membranes divide the space in two dimensions, Being Within separates the audience from the fictioned hidden consciousness that inhabits the building. By designing this threshold and by separating the exhibition space in two, it naturally forces the existence of an interior and an exterior. It is an exploration of the idea of liminality, the condition of being in-between. In this redefinition of space, where does the audience lie? Can the exhibition space be now understood as an exterior space, while the real interior of the building stands beyond the membrane?

The work also examines these spatial boundaries as porous: their surface is not a mere separator but a dynamic membrane that responds to and redefines its surroundings. It acknowledges the presence in the exhibition space, by breathing in the voices, histories and memories that surround it, oozing them back with its own mechanical patterns. This interface becomes a threshold between the known and the networked organism that lives within the bounds of each building. What can permeate through these boundaries? What do they absorb and what do they ooze back to the audience?

Through a topology-based approach, I consider space not as a static container but as a continuous, shifting network of interactions. By imagining surfaces as active listeners, I invite engagement, urging audiences to consider architecture not merely as a rigid structure but as an active participant.