“Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.” — Roland Barthes

Amir Mortazavi and David Kasprzak present the inaugural project space of Highlight Gallery at 3020 Laguna Street, a series of site-specific installations unfolding within a modest 19th-century residence in San Francisco’s Cow Hollow. Inspired by Gordon Matta-Clark’s investigations of “nonsites” — overlooked, in-between spaces that blur art and architecture — the exhibition treats the home itself as both medium and message. Composed entirely from materials found within the structure, the works transform the house into a final act of expression before its planned demolition.

Invited artists Jeremiah Barber, Randy Colosky, Chris Fraser, Christine Peterson, Yulia Pinkusevich, Jonathan Runcio, Jesse Schlesinger, Gareth Spor, and Andy Vogt inhabit the building at the threshold between preservation and disappearance. Through excavation, projection, intervention, and at times deliberate undoing, they reveal the layered histories embedded in its walls — the lives lived within, the labor that shaped it, and the entropy that claims it. The result is less an exhibition than a wake: a temporary convergence of dream and function, marking the passing of a space that once held both.