In response to a more cost effective temporary exhibition system, foamCORE transforms an existing gallery by re-cladding its walls and doubling the amount of surface area through lightweight, interchangeable partitions. The typical high cost, labor intensive process of laminating paper onto foam for display is questioned and inverted, whereby the foam actually becomes the CORE of the exhibition space. Using standard 4’x8’x2” sheets of white expanded polystyrene as structure to display work, the unfashionable space is upgraded to better illustrate the content on exhibition.