Our curation, titled A Geography of Tender Things approaches ‘place’ as a form of situated experience: one shaped by social, cultural, emotional and geographical conditions, and explored through psychic landscapes and affective terrains. Moving between fraught territories – from the creative anxieties of the studio and spiritual investigations of the visible world to broader concerns around diminishing landscapes and located experiences of war-torn cities and migration – ‘place’ emerges not only as a physical reality but as an inner landscape, in which human experience and the contexts that shape it remain inextricably connected.