Grasping Through the Threshold

2026

Building on Byung Chul-Han’s Disappearance of Rituals and Robin D. G. Kelley’s Freedom Dreams, this installation contemplates the axis of violence and care in times of collapse through photography, installation, and creative writing. In a time where violence is broadcasted and livestreamed in an effort to normalize harm this work attempts to grapple with the full spectrum of care and violence. The work has two distinct rooms, one room includes 36 images, a full roll of film, photographed in Gwinnett County, GA, Baltimore, MD, and Los Angeles, CA. The images range from reference to gun culture in the south, intimate domestic spaces with family, and mundane images like a suitcase with clothes spilling out. The second room is filled with hanging film strips from over 10 plus years, with rotating flashlights that give a peek into the memory captured on the film strip. While the first room offers a full suite of images from, grounded in reality, the second room offers a more surreal point of view with the film negatives and moving lights operating like ghosts of the past and the future. While Chul-Han offers us the language to understand how we move through states of transformation, Kelley offers us the hope and historical context that we can dream our way into a better world.


Medium: Milk crates, cinder blocks, rotating flashlights, various 35 mm film strips, 2 overhead projectors, used shooting target, 36 images from a singular roll of film printed on enhanced matte, 100 copies of artist book.