“Evade or Ensnare: Decorative Illusionism in Historic and Contemporary Painting” features paintings that work the gaze into an active form of looking.
“Communal Medicine: Tending Abundance” features works by Gina Goico, Perla Mabel, and Rixy that explore abundance as an aesthetic strategy and political commitment oriented towards healing collective traumas.
While Liliana Porter’s carefully structured vignettes invite us to relate to the inanimate objects as human surrogates, her explicit cinematic editing disrupts a direct correlation between reality and its representations and emphasizes the varied and contradictory meanings of things.