NARROW GATE

LAR Gallery, Houston, TX | June 27 - August 17

Narrow Gate is not a conventional exhibition, but a spatial proposition—an embodied meditation on emergence, interiority, and the delicate labor of returning to oneself. Developed during Demi Kahn’s residency at LaRucheHTX, the installation unfolds through suspended forms and sculptural interventions that trace a movement away from inherited architectures of identity and toward a more grounded, experiential presence.

The “narrow gate” invoked here is not a symbol of transcendence, but a subtle threshold—barely perceptible, yet transformative. It demands attunement rather than interpretation, offering a space in which the viewer may encounter not spectacle, but sensation. Through this, Kahn considers form not as destination but as conduit—for loosening internal constraints, for inhabiting the body as it is.

These works resist resolution. Instead, they dwell in states of suspension: partial, processual, and unresolved. By staging the gallery as a site of rehearsal, Kahn proposes a shift—from performance to perception, from certainty to attention. Here there is no finality. Rather, an invite for return—again and again—to a more elemental way of being: quiet, rigorous, and wholly alive.

— Megan Olivia Ebel , Curator