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Arda Asena, Like A River Underground, 2025. Courtesy of the artist.
Through an interweaving of short films and readings, this program includes offerings by Adam HajYahia, Charisse Pearlina Weston, Mona Benyamin and Jon Jon Moore Palacios to think alongside questions that inform our current exhibition, An Inherent Undoing. Bearing the acute awareness that repair is a fraught concept, what else can exist besides the imperative to seek resolution as a measure of progress? Is coherency instrumentalized as a tool of control? In a radically broken world, these reflections are considerations on the capacity to hold fractured realities, to live alongside the irreconcilable, and enfold into the rupture.
This program was organized by Gervais Marsh, with support from Charles de Agustin. All of our programs are free and open to the public with RSVPs encouraged. Info on accessing our space can be found here. Email us with any questions.
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Adam HajYahia’s work examines how aesthetic practices of image-making, performance, writing, and sound—both within and outside the art market—reflect on, simulate, initiate, and break apart sociality and political consciousness, particularly in the advent of colonial modernity. Through his work as a scholar, writer, and curator, he explores the at once harmonious and dissonant relationships between psychoanalysis and social organization, desire and labor, and settler-colonial and imperial economies, and forms of political rebellion. His curatorial projects and scholarship have been presented and featured in various museums, universities, and cultural institutions, such as the Biennale of Moving Images in Geneva (BIM’26), the Sharjah Biennial 16 (2025), The Vera List Center at The New School (2024), The Mosaic Rooms (2023), The James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center (2023), MoMA PS1 (2022), The Berlin Biennale 12 Curators Workshop (2022), and Mophradat (2022-24). He is currently Associate Curator at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts, Bard College.
Charisse Pearlina Weston (b. 1988, Houston, TX; based in Brooklyn, NY) is a conceptual artist who works across sculpture, writing, installation, and photography. Utilizing techniques, such as concealment, repetition, and enfoldment, her work posits Black interior life as a central site of Black resistance. Weston received a BA from the University of North Texas, a MSc in Modern Art: History Curating and Criticism from the University of Edinburgh’s Edinburgh College of Art, and an MFA in Studio Art with Critical Theory emphasis from the University of California-Irvine in 2019. She is an alumna of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program and the Studio Museum in Harlem's Artist in Residence Program. Weston is the 2026 Hermitage Greenfield Prize recipient, and she was named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, a 2025 Trellis Foundation Stepping Stone grant awardee, a 2023 Jerome Hill Fellow, and a 2023 Hodder Fellow at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. Her work was exhibited in the 2024 Whitney Biennial and the 12th SITE SANTA FE International. Recent solo exhibitions include the Queens Museum (New York, NY), Moody Center of the Arts at Rice University (Houston, TX), and Moss Art Center at Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA).
Mona Benyamin is a visual artist, filmmaker, and writer based in Palestine. In her works, she explores intergenerational outlooks on hope, trauma, and different temporalities. Through appropriating formats from mass and popular media and tampering with their apparatuses, and utilizing dark humor, she questions notions of authenticity and veracity, and challenges concepts of agency and victimhood. Her recent works have been screened — among others — at the Museum of Modern Art, REDCAT, Sheffield DocFest, The Mosaic Rooms, and Columbia University.
Jon Jon Moore Palacios is a writer from Detroit. He received his MA in African-American Studies from UC Berkeley, and has received fellowships from the Center for African Studies at UC Berkeley, the San Francisco Public Library, Harvard Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research, and The Watering Hole. His scholarship and poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Black Agenda Report, BOAAT, Button Poetry, DRØME, Shade, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, and Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, and VINYL, among others.
Image description: An abstract photo of gray and brown dirt and rocks, with a tear down the middle revealing shades of blue, and a loop of black.