Under the Frame explores how internal order was constructed within Kew Asylum through the management system established by its first superintendent, Dr Robertson.

Starting from the superintendent’s perspective, the project examines how patients were classified, labelled, and assigned into different spaces and routines. Rather than focusing only on treatment, this system reveals how institutional management often prioritised control, efficiency, and order over individual needs.

Through this exhibition, audiences are made to question what efficiency conceals and whose lives were organised into legibility for the comfort of those who held the pen.