19 August – 19 October 2025
Museum of the Home, 136 Kingsland Rd, London E2 8EA
From August 19 – October 19 2025, we’re excited to share an adaptation of artist Alison Lam’s Mind the Gap exhibition, co-curated by Celina Loh, Director of In Transit and Museum of the Home.
Mind the Gap exhibition explores the experience of overwhelm from neurodivergent perspectives, highlighting the often invisible emotional and practical labour of the everyday. Since 2015, Alison has been working with neurodivergent participants to reframe overwhelm as a space of resilience instead of a purely negative experience.
Mind the Gap supports the Museum’s vision by shedding light on hidden experiences of the home, by inviting our audiences to think of home not just as a physical space but as a feeling, a negotiation and an experience shaped by identity and circumstance. Drawing on symbols around doors and windows, Mind the Gap at the Museum considers the thresholds where calm meets chaos and where home can feel both protective and confining.
Alison Lam shaped the visuals created in the workshops into new artworks navigating the ‘gap’ between the calm and chaos of overwhelm. Both shared and personal experiences are concealed across calligraphy on textile and paper scrolls, and within petals of lotus flowers made of porcelain, brass and paper, inviting the visitors to reflect on their own moments of vulnerability.
This exhibition is part of the ESEA Programme at Museum of the Home, collaborating with Lara Baclig.
Funded by Arts Council England’s National Lottery Project Grants.