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Hedonic Adaptation: Structures of Survival and Repair brings Edoardo Villa’s steel sculptures into dialogue with works by Tshepo Sizwe Phokojoe to consider how societies become habituated to inherited structures of pressure, damage and survival. Villa’s steel works carry the language of modernist monumentality – weight, compression, balance and industrial authority. Phokojoe’s practice introduces a counter-language of stitching, shelter, vulnerability, memory and repair.

Responding to HEAT 2026’s theme, Ctrl + Z, the exhibition asks not whether historical damage can be undone, but whether inherited forms can be relooked at, softened, re-skinned and held differently. Through the encounter between steel and cloth, monument and shelter, public form and intimate repair, the exhibition proposes slow looking as a way to interrupt adaptation – to recognise what has become normalised and to imagine new structures of attention, survival and care.