It all begins with an act that is both ordinary and demanding: paying attention. Before ecological awareness becomes knowledge, policy, or responsibility, it may begin with the suspension of distraction, with the decision to remain beside something long enough for it to appear. The Nearness of Things approaches seeing not as a detached act, but as a sensory and relational experience. To look closely is to discover that the world is not composed of passive objects arranged around human life. Materials, organisms, surfaces, and remnants participate in an environment of mutual influence, where the boundaries between observer and observed are less stable than they first appear. The exhibition therefore proposes no single method of looking and no perfect route towards care. Instead, it creates a space in which perception can slow down, deepen, and become answerable to what surrounds us. Care may begin there: in the moment when something stops being merely present and becomes impossible to overlook.