At Possibly Sometime Tomorrow and Emergency Space in Paris, Here Be Small Monsters gathers six artists around the monsters under the childhood bed — the small, personal ones that live in the gap between a fairy tale and a memory.
Curated by Babette Robertson and Emergency Group, the show brings together Eliott Paquet, Ivan Volkov, Hyewon Mia Lee, Iuliia Skromnaya, Misha Gudwin, and Chunghee Yun. "This is a show about the monsters under the childhood bed," writes Robertson. "Not the big, epic ones but the small, personal ones. The ones that live in the gap between a fairy tale and a memory, in the quiet of a forest at dusk, in the shape of a body that doesn't fit."
Nothing is purely innocent. Nothing is purely dark. The work holds a tense balance: beauty and unease, craft and chaos, humorous and haunted. Materials are chosen like words in a secret language — ceramic, burned wood, airbrushed mist, oil paint, stretched tights. Each artist brings a different register of the uncanny: childhood stories reimagined as adult anxieties, domestic objects charged with quiet menace, surfaces that shift between tenderness and threat.
The title riffs on the old mapmakers' warning of uncharted, perilous lands: "Hic sunt dracones" — Here be dragons. But the curators have scaled it down. "The dragons are domestic now," Robertson writes. "They are not grandiose myths, but personal hauntings." In a two-venue presentation that ran through early February 2026, the exhibition argued that the most unsettling territory is the one we already know — the bedroom, the body, the half-remembered story told in the dark.
