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Even the Phrase Each Other
Part of the final group exhibition by the Cornell University MFA class of 2025, featuring works by fellow artists artists Adrian Aguilera, Elina Ansary, Andy Nicholas Li, and Hyunjin Park. Curated collaboratively among us, Even the Phrase Each Other was on view during our last semester at Ortega y Gasset Projects in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
The exhibition title references a line of poetry from Jalal al-Din Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks, to gesture towards ideas of “coming together” through chance, chaos, and cosmological entanglements. Spanning painting, prints, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, and video, these artists engage the viewer through the cultural contexts that shape them — drawing from ancestral ties to Mexico, Afghanistan, Finland, China, South Korea, and Cambodia. Their works navigate the space between insider and outsider as the exhibition slowly unfolds into fragmentary memories of a war-torn “past,” the desirous and contested gaze of masculinity, elegies for human and non-human lives, and dissection of language and digital images. Together, these artists aim to invoke the ways through which death, distance, and desire imprint themselves upon our bodies and ways of being — to reflect the discomfort and wonder of our collective moment.
05.10.2025–05.31.2025
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I Miss You More than I Remember You, 2025. 9-channel video installation (color; sound) with paper pulp, wood, cement, thread. Installation views, Even the Phrase Each Other, Brooklyn, NY, May 10 – May 31, 2025.Photos by Hyunjin Park and Chanel Matsunami Govreau.
Even the Phrase Each Other
Part of the final group exhibition by the Cornell University MFA class of 2025, featuring works by fellow artists artists Adrian Aguilera, Elina Ansary, Andy Nicholas Li, and Hyunjin Park. Curated collaboratively among us, Even the Phrase Each Other was on view during our last semester at Ortega y Gasset Projects in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
The exhibition title references a line of poetry from Jalal al-Din Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks, to gesture towards ideas of “coming together” through chance, chaos, and cosmological entanglements. Spanning painting, prints, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, and video, these artists engage the viewer through the cultural contexts that shape them — drawing from ancestral ties to Mexico, Afghanistan, Finland, China, South Korea, and Cambodia. Their works navigate the space between insider and outsider as the exhibition slowly unfolds into fragmentary memories of a war-torn “past,” the desirous and contested gaze of masculinity, elegies for human and non-human lives, and dissection of language and digital images. Together, these artists aim to invoke the ways through which death, distance, and desire imprint themselves upon our bodies and ways of being — to reflect the discomfort and wonder of our collective moment.
05.10.2025–05.31.2025
Image captions
I Miss You More than I Remember You, 2025. 9-channel video installation (color; sound) with paper pulp, wood, cement, thread. Installation views, Even the Phrase Each Other, Brooklyn, NY, May 10 – May 31, 2025.Photos by Hyunjin Park and Chanel Matsunami Govreau.
