This group exhibition proposes protection takes shape through emotional, bodily, and material processes rather than force or rigidity. Bringing together artists who work with landscape, hybridity, and organic form, the exhibition traces a progression from interior psychic containment, to bodies shaped through entanglement with the nonhuman, to structures that shelter without hardening. Across painting, sculpture, photography, and material-based practices, Tender Armor considers how care, adaptation, and form operate as modes of defense.