Liquid Crystal Respawn
Curated by Naomi Moser

Artists: Sadrie Alves, Dahlia Bloomstone, Clare Gatto, Kara Güt, Maya Man, Krysta Sa, and Asia Stewart

January 16 - 23, 2026

MA Curatorial Practice presents “Liquid Crystal Respawn,” curated by MA Curatorial Practice student Naomi Moser. The exhibition investigates the porous spaces between life and artifice. The artworks operate within a long lineage of performance as a method of testing the body’s thresholds: what can be outsourced, coded, automated, ritualized, or rebuilt. In these practices, inanimate forms become sites of emotional and spiritual projection, echoing ancient stories of golems—automata brought to life from clay through ritual intention.

Only here, golems are not the soulless automata of Jewish folklore, but humans reconfigured. These tender, uncanny bodies emerge from tradition, memory, labor, and intimacy, and the bodies and souls of their artist makers. The glitching forms of Bambi-legged AI and humans, struggling under the weight of infinite stimuli, collide and respawn. This continual cycle becomes a survival mechanism of collapse and reconstitution, as autonomic as the impulse to deactivate and then later reactivate a social media account.

Together, these artists and their works resist narratives of human obsolescence by staging the posthuman as something sensorial and affective. Their work defends emotional life from within the liquid crystal display, inviting viewers to slow down and smell the digital flowers.