Load-bearing Walls by Daria Khozhai
28.11.25
—22.03.26
This is my home. The home where I was born and grew up. The home that I loved. The home I can never return to. No roof, no floor, no walls are left—only memories and emotions: pain, despair, nostalgia, and loss.
The exhibition ‘Load-bearing Walls’ on display in Arcam, presents a series of dollhouse-scale architectural models by Ukrainian artist and architect Daria Khozhai (1994), whose practice weaves together art, architecture, and psychology. Her work explores how spaces absorb and retain emotional and historical trauma, transforming the language of architecture into one of memory and mourning.
What's on display?
The models on view are drawn from both realized full-scale works (currently exhibited at the Fenix Museum in Rotterdam, the M17 Art Center in Kyiv, and the Dordrecht Museum) and forthcoming 1:1 immersive installations. They are miniature echoes of environments that once stood, or will stand again, at human scale. Each model embodies a place that carries the weight of memory behind its walls: homes marked by violence, loss, displacement, and silence. Built from therapy journals, worn fabrics, family relics, and fragments of domestic life, they translate deeply personal experience into spatial form.
In Load-bearing Walls, the intimate becomes political, and the miniature monumental. Each structure stands as both home and wound—an emotional architecture that bears the invisible weight of what has been lost, yet continues to endure.
An Afternoon with Daria Khozai
12 December 2025
Meet artist and architect Daria Khozai and experience her work in a unique, intimate way.
This special Friday afternoon from 5pm at Arcam, Daria will share insights into her creative process and the stories behind her exhibition Load-Bearing Walls. Visitors will have the opportunity to explore the exhibition, experience it up close, and ask questions in a relaxed setting.