WHEN: 

From September 25 until December 19, 2026. 

WHERE: 

Pratt Manhattan Gallery – 144 West 14th Street, New York.

Curated by ELIZABETH DIGGON, NAOMI POTTER and SHAUNA THOMPSON

“Like everything alive that we try to hold forever” brings together seven artists whose works, in a broad sense, reflect ways that our human bodies exist in relation to non-human objects and the complex, interconnected ways that these objects, through their systemic collection, consumption, and contextualization, impact our understanding of self and others.

The works here address our psychosocial relationships to materiality, responding to the embedded identities, biases, and harms entrenched within science, technology, and museological collections that are often cloaked under the guise of logical neutrality.

Through a constellation of approaches, the exhibition draws parallels between these realities, presenting objects and avatars as channels that access the limits of human experience, push against it, or gesture toward a transhuman future.

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Artists:

Larry Achiampong & David Blandy
Diane Borsato
Stephanie Dinkins
Bridget Moser
Sondra Perry
Miya Turnbull