sweet tears! rescribe the shadows affixed to these intangible structures, so I may once more forget, and suffer the bitter-saccharine taste of rememory
Curated by Kyle Colón

April 16 - 30, 2026

sweet tears! rescribe the shadows affixed to these intangible structures, so I may once more forget, and suffer the bitter-saccharine taste of rememory is an exhibition curated by Kyle Colón, featuring artists Sheila Carr, Brad Farwell, Nicole Soto Rodriguez, Kara Springer, and Kutay Tufekci and Alejandro Valencia.

The exhibition comprised of two chapters. Each chapter serves as a reflection on presence and absence, a subtext of the overarching themes of space and memory that the artists grapple with, drawing influence from writers and thinkers such as Gaston Bachelard, as well as Henri Lefebvre, among others. Shelia Carr constructs the dying memory with concrete and rebar; Brad Farwell offers photographs of dying sites in the Bronx—the interiors and exteriors of Victorian Era homes marked for demolition; Nicole Soto Rodriguez stages a ghostly investigation into a long-lost home in Puerto Rico; Kara Springer presents sculptural interventions that physically weave the photographic print with temporary and adaptable wood structures; and the site-specific works of Kutay Tufekci and Alejandro Valencia engage with the history of the site itself, the Pfizer Building, as a space for the layering of memory and happenings through painting and performance. The exhibition looks to explore the relation between physical space and human memory. Each work utilizes personal and historic narrative to contest the inevitable erasure of both memory and physical space owed to the nature of the passage of time.

The second part of the exhibition considers the ideas of presence and absence and the exhibition as a site of both. The initial exhibition is deinstalled, and in place of the works, archival images from the artists and the opening are installed and presented as artworks themselves. This, coupled with other techniques of installation, takes into consideration the fleeting nature of the exhibition space as well as it being a site for memory—one that we know to disappear.

The title of the show draws inspiration from the works of Toni Morrison, particularly her novel Beloved. Morrison writes about rememory, an ambiguous notion that is never fully defined. It is simultaneously the action of reminiscence, the site of memory, the memory as an object, as well as the memory as its own entity. In addition, a drawing workshop, Memory Complex III, hosted by Lily Hyon, will take place on the exhibition site, with participants rendering sites of personal importance purely from memory.