Hypha Studios and art and architecture platform recessed.space have announced a new exhibition for early 2026 that puts stone, time and endurance firmly in the frame.

Hypha Studios

What Lasts Doesn’t Always Hold Shape forms part of Hypha Studios’ year-long programme at James Stirling’s landmark No.1 Poultry, which will presents a series of select shows engaging with architecture and the built environment in collaboration with recessed.space. 

Jobe Burns

At the heart of the project is the building itself and, in particular, the physical and symbolic life of the stone that wraps its distinctive façade. Curated by Taylor Hall and Rebecca Jak, the exhibition is set to bring together work by Marian Drew, Levent Ozruh and Jobe Burns.

Levent Ozruh

Jak and Hall’s co-curatorial practice draws on their shared backgrounds in art and architectural culture and is rooted in reciprocity and knowledge-sharing across disciplines. They approach materiality as an act of empathy, viewing “the climate crisis through a cultural lens, and understand time as a tangible accumulation that settles within things, places and spaces.” 

The three artists will be responding directly to No.1 Poultry, a site built and rebuilt over nearly two millennia. The work will create a dialogue across these layered histories, using stone not simply as a material of endurance but as a witness to deep time and a register of “human fragility, intervention, ideology and cultural projection”. In this framing, stone’s capacity to endure is not treated as something guaranteed by the material alone, but as something sustained through ongoing negotiation, care and use.

What Lasts Doesn’t Always Hold Shape
Hypha Gallery 2, No.1 Poultry, London EC2R 8EN
29 January – 4 March 2026
Thurs–Sun, 1–6pm (and by appointment)
Private view: Thursday 29 January, 6–9pm

Reserve a free spot at the PV here!

Alongside the exhibition, the team are running a public program event, which will include Unpicking Architecture: the misuse and reuse of stone with The Stone Collective, a talk sponsored by the Stone & Surfaces Show. 

Get your ticket for the event here.