Mirological: The Poetics of Mourning

Curated by Sophia Maria Takvorian

Artists: Jean Marie Casbarian, Leonardo Madriz, Dean Majd, Liliana Merizalde, Nikolay Karabinovych, Nathan Storey

April 17 - April 30, 2025

Mirological: The Poetics of Mourning explores this tender and elegiac subject through the works of artists who have contended with the loss of loved ones, and the consequent sense of self, home, history, and potential futures. Drawing inspiration from mirologia, Greek lamentation songs, the exhibition adopts this colloquial term to describe collective processes of grief and the ways in which artists mold their mourning through their practices. The works on view embody notions of vulnerability, catharsis, and adaptation in the face of loss, and trace notions of collective and individual identity in the shadow of grief and of a society that not only dictates how we must live but also how we must mourn.