What does it mean to find the surreal embedded in our waking lives, and what happens when the ordinary boundaries of the home become landscapes for playful distortion? The exhibition looks beyond the physical home to the invisible systems that govern our routines.

Christabel Png brings the modern, algorithmic uncanny into the space. Drawing from her background in behavioral psychology and system design, she breaks down the rigid frameworks that dictate our habits.

Through intimate material processes, she invites us to actively question and reshape the invisible structures we normally accept without a second thought.

For most of our lives, the domestic realm is understood as a place of certainty. It organizes our daily rhythms, frames our routines, and provides a predictable sanctuary from the outside world. Across generations, the home has been associated with comfort, function, and stability. Yet, as we look closer at the mundane details of our daily habits, this begins to crack. Viewed through the Freudian lens of the uncanny—that unsettling feeling of the familiar becoming strange, or “unhomely”—the everyday reveals itself to be profoundly porous. Just beneath the surface of routine lies a restless psychological landscape where memory, childhood imagery, and the subconscious relentlessly break through.

Ocampo studio is pleased to present A Surrealist Day on the Everyday Dream, a group exhibition featuring works by Christabel Png, Mary Macken Allen, Megan Preston Davies, Rike Droescher, and Xinran Liu.

Text and Curation by Pamela Orozco.

Images by Christabel Png.