A Library of Libraries by Blindeside

Collective Exhibition at Blindeside, Melbourne, Australia, March 2026

Curated by Grey Dear

​Presentation of the ongoing pilot hase of the research project Caterpillaring by Alma Sammel

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Caterpillaring is a pilot phase of the curatorial research project exploring latency, relationality, and collective becoming through a process of invitation. Presented as a sensible cartography composed of letters, the project unfolds through written correspondences sent to artists, researchers, and thinkers who resonate with the figure of the caterpillar as a metaphor for processes of incubation, transformation, and shared movement.

Rather than mapping a fixed network, these letters trace a shifting constellation of affinities. Each invitation operates as a gesture of relation — a tentative link in a chain of thought, echoing the segmented body of the caterpillar itself. The resulting correspondence forms a dispersed archive of responses, silences, and potential encounters.

Within A Library of Libraries, Caterpillaring appears as a work in progress: a set of invitations, traces, and emerging dialogues that visitors can browse, read, and inhabit if they want to.

The project proposes the letter as a curatorial tool — a way of composing a sensitive map of ideas in formation, where knowledge circulates through attention, delay, and the possibility of response.