translation
In moments of intimate connection and vulnerability, how we translate memories and longing onto the objects of our desire can be just as meaningful as the actions we do or don't take. Featuring Sofia Coppola's indie classic Lost in Translation, words from ee cummings, Yukio Mishima, James Merrill, and William Somerset Maugham, paintings from John Kacere, John Singer Sargent, Elizabeth Peyton, and Faye Wei Wei, and set to Roxy Music's More Than This.
the green ray
the elusive green ray reminds us to revel in fleeting moments of meaning in the ceaselessness cycles of everyday life. featuring eric rohmer's le rayon vert, jules verne's novel of the same name, paintings from eric ernest johnson, passages from rimbaud and the idiot by both elif bautman and fyodor dostoevsky, and set to music from sandy's.
on earth
on earth we’re shaped by our family traditions, the places we’re from, the moments we cherish, and the futures we long for. featuring lulu wang’s the farewell, ocean vuong’s on earth we’re briefly gorgeous, photographs from luo yang and nguan, and passages from works by jenny zhang and the late qui miaojin. music by mitski.
king of a rainy country
the past and present clash at the hands of the ceaselessly cyclical clock. our regrets and hopes are skewed and magnified by time, imagination, and lost loves. featuring prose from baudelaire’s paris spleen, trauffaut’s jules and jim screenshots, sculpture from brancusi, closed eyes in many iterations by odilon redon, illustrations from bonnie camplin, quote from king of a rainy country by brigid brophy, the first modern painting by manet, a poem ode from lawrence raab, and experimental music from ruth white.
defacement
published 31 years to the day after spike lee’s do the right thing was released in the US, this compendium is a study on how we document oppression and form collective narratives when we witness and experience gross injustice. featuring arthur jafa’s love is the message, the message is death, spike lee’s do the right thing, ultralight beam by kanye west and chance the rapper, lorraine hansberry’s a raisin in the sun, paintings by basquiat from the 2019 guggenheim defacement exhibit, the social contract by jean-jacques rousseau, jacob holdt photograhy, and john paul sarte’s black orpheus.
