Surface explores how artists continually renegotiate their relationship with materials through practices of repurposing and transformation, presenting works that push material and perceptual boundaries while turning the familiar into the unexpected. The layered surfaces complicate perceptions of depth and material certainty, challenging hierarchies and expanding what an artwork’s “skin” can contain. Drawing from art history, philosophy, music, and contemporary society, the works function as both material experiments and invitations to engage emotional and conceptual layers. Here, surface becomes a site of investigation and potential, encouraging viewers to reconsider the overlooked and see the ordinary anew....