Rooms Remember Themselves
Sara Graham
May 30 – June 27, 2026
Opening Saturday, May 30, 2-5PM

Sara Graham’s latest exhibition at MKG127 continues her exploration of collage and the cut‑out. For Graham, the most compelling aspect of collage lies at the edges—where one element meets another in an improvisational interplay of chance and intuition.

Reminiscent of her Rebuilding Canada series from 2016, in which she reimagined the urban landscape and considered the limitless possibilities of urban design, Rooms Remember Themselves turns inward, taking a more introspective look at the idea of home.

At a time when our nation is facing an affordable housing crisis, the idealized visions found in glossy interior design magazines feel increasingly distant—depicting versions of home that resemble still lifes more than lived‑in spaces. Through this new body of work, Graham examines the real textures of home: the clutter, the heirlooms, the mismatched accessories, and the fragments of memory and personality that make each space unique.

These works reveal the layered nature of home through numerous juxtapositions of pattern and colour, depicting an accumulation of objects that allude to a compressed history, one that can be imagined unfolding over decades. In many ways, this accumulation recalls the homes of our parents or grandparents, where objects gathered over a lifetime form a kind of lived archive, reflecting the ongoing act of collecting and making a home. Rooms Remember Themselves brings these layers to the surface, celebrating the intimate, imperfect, and deeply personal qualities that define the spaces we inhabit.