The Core is an opportunity to inquire into the fundamental aspects of being and our relationship with God, nature and our fellow human beings.
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Kelly O’Briant. The Last Stand, 2026. Pinhole photograph.
Presented at a moment of transition for the gallery, the exhibition considers how we sustain identity and connection amid change. Beginnings and endings often receive our attention, while the middle—the ongoing work of living, caring, and becoming—passes largely unrecognized. Sublimation attends to this overlooked and undervalued space, where motherhood, memory, and mortality meet the daily pleasures and demands of being alive.
Nahm’s attention to fleeting moments and familiar surroundings, O’Briant’s overlapping images and objects that hold grief, care, and the joy of living, and Post’s exploration of the self within changing bodies and family relationships offer distinct ways of considering how we hold on to who we are while being changed by those we love. Through making, experiences still unfolding take form in images and objects. In her accompanying essay, Voisin considers the sacred within the profane, recognizing tenderness and love in even the most humble, bodily acts of care.
The exhibition itself occupies a threshold, extending these questions of presence, continuity, and change to the gallery that holds it. Here, too, we consider what it means to sustain a shared space, what we carry forward, and what takes another form.
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