What remains of a moment after time has pulled it out of shape? Distorted Nostalgia explores how personal histories are tethered to objects, images, and emotions that linger even as the original moments fade. The exhibition engages with the surreal, examining how nostalgia bends reality and turns the past into something both vivid and elusive.

Drawing from varied backgrounds and perspectives, the artists explore personal histories that resist perfection—impressions rendered softer or more jagged by time. They play with contrast, most strikingly through warm and cool tones that suggest the fluid nature of memory. Swirling patterns and unexpected material combinations abound, as though memory itself is unraveling and reassembling.

Every recollection is a reconstruction. As you move through the exhibition, consider how nostalgia shapes what you remember—and what you forget. What happens when the past is filtered through time, emotion, and different social or cultural perspectives?

About Young Curators

Young Curators is a free after-school program for high school students to write critically about art and exhibitions, learn about jobs in art and museum fields, and work together to bring an exhibition to life.