spring can really hang you up the most
June 6 – 28, 2025
Ariel Bader-Shamai, Sean Burak, Rae Burns, Maia De Graff, and Nathan Ivanco
Curated by Sahra Soudi
Despite spring being a time for renewal and new beginnings, what often follows is an air of melancholy—or saudade, if you will—a type of yearning that accommodates grief. A shadowy quiet weight of expectation: to bloom, to emerge, to become, ready or not. It is an awakening aligned with natural phenomena, tempered by an awareness of an inhospitable pressure to unfurl with potential at the ready.
Inspired by Betty Carter’s beautifully haunting rendition of “Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most”, this exhibition includes works that meditate not only on our entanglement with one another as living beings, but also on our connection to environments that sensitively bear witness to observed changes in the timing of the seasons.
Ariel Bader-Shamai, Sean Burak, Rae Burns, Maia De Graff, and Nathan Ivanco
Curated by Sahra Soudi
Despite spring being a time for renewal and new beginnings, what often follows is an air of melancholy—or saudade, if you will—a type of yearning that accommodates grief. A shadowy quiet weight of expectation: to bloom, to emerge, to become, ready or not. It is an awakening aligned with natural phenomena, tempered by an awareness of an inhospitable pressure to unfurl with potential at the ready.
Inspired by Betty Carter’s beautifully haunting rendition of “Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most”, this exhibition includes works that meditate not only on our entanglement with one another as living beings, but also on our connection to environments that sensitively bear witness to observed changes in the timing of the seasons.
Documentation by Eli Nolet
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