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𝘉𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘢𝘸, organized by Simon Leung and Sora Han, is on view at the University Art Galleries from October 3 to December 13, 2026.

Featuring work by York Chang, Tarik Garrett, Ashley Hunt, Zoe Leonard, Alberto Lule, Paul McCarthy, Na Mira, Sheila Pinkel, Cameron Rowland, Samar Al Summary, Tiffany Sia, Lincoln Tobier, Kiyan Williams, Kim Zumpfe & Luke Quezada.

Join us for the opening reception on Saturday, October 10 from 2 to 5pm.

What does it mean to desire, to stand before, to be subject to, the power of Law in a time of forever wars?

𝘉𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘢𝘸 connects Kafka’s enigmatic depiction of law with Simon Leung’s 2006 curatorial project, 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘢𝘸, to meditate on an unprecedented hostile takeover of the collective psyche by accelerated technologies of state/corporate/media collusion and their destruction of life and land, domestically and abroad.

Exhibition artworks, spanning the early 1990s to the present, reassemble the uncanny parts of real life that follow us into the place and time of waiting before the Law. Their aesthetic strategies are far-ranging: parrhesia to parody, speculative para-fiction to granular studies of materiality, redistributed auras of the indexical to extra-legal effects of the readymade. They operate in double-time and longue durée to place an arrest on “the present.” Each teaches us abiding lessons about disobedience, aesthetic, political, and otherwise, at the edge of democracy and fascism.

Stay tuned for our parallel public program.

Exhibition graphics by Richard Kahwagi @sisixscies.studios

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A glimpse of the artists behind the work 🎨📷 Studio portraits by @itsvaleriegreen from our annual graduate open studios ✨

Wishing everyone a restful and beautiful summer!!!

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akamai ya dis one🎓

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👏videos👏aren’t👏objects👏

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Magical evening @hammer_museum 2026 Gala ✨✨✨

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What better way to kick off the start of spring quarter than with THESIS NUMBER 2✨♥️

The second of our four thesis exhibitions opens this Thursday April 2nd, at the New Wight Gallery 5-8pm.

Please join us in celebrating
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@markelecullins
@ashleymichellehannah
@jazzygirl______

This is the moment ✨

Gallery Hours
Monday - Friday, 9:30AM - 4:30PM
Saturday, 10AM - 5PM

New Wight Gallery
Broad Art Center, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90065

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🛟 Let us be your buoy in the sea of time 🌊 Join us somewhere between earthly boundaries and open sky on Friday, April 17, at 7 pm, for opening night of Cadence Video Poetry Festival at the Northwest Film Forum. Get your ticket to “you flew from my eyes” and join us for a showcase of seven shorts from around the world that meditate on the marks we leave and with which we are left. Tickets are on sale now! Find the link in our bio!

STILLS
The Sky After Rain (Aseman Bad Az Baran), dir. Blame the Shadows Collective, poet: Payam Feili
Spellbound Blue, Angelica Urquizo
What goes up, Samar Al Summary
Snow, Hai-Li Kong
shadowtree, Livia Glascock
kwatye urrewe, Kieran Mpetyane Satour
Oracle, directors: Youssef ElNahas & Leena Aboutaleb, poet: Leena Aboutaleb

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Get tickets to Cadence Video Poetry Festival and join us for 5 showcases, April 17-19 in person at @nwfilmforum. The festival also features 3 satellite screenings taking place April 14 at @pdxpanorama, April 30 at @fryeartmuseum and July 2 at @seattleartmuseum. With more than 50 video poems from 21 countries in 20 languages, we promise you’ll find something you like, LOVE, linger over, and certainly can’t live without.
cadencevideopoetry.org

Video and audio: “GENESIS” by XU JINGXUAN, music design by Zhou Ganling
“Light Ghazal” by director: Jake Alexander McAfee, poet: Hala Alyan
“already dead (déjà morts)” by Ghada Sayegh
“what does it feel like to live inside of a pomegranate” by Kamyar Mohsenin
“on the road (onderweg)” by Melody Sigmund
“Blessed Are Those Who Grieve” by directors: Zora Arose Ritz, Evgenia Chetvertkova, Kayu Yeung, poet: Kayu Yeung
“Absence (Ausencia)” by Leslie Mabel Cota
“Semaphore to the Sea” by Amy-Ellen f Trefsger
“When You Left Me” by Kamari Bright
“Macula” by Mariana X Rivera
“Late on the Planet (Tarde no Planeta)” by director: Julia Tonon, poet: Leonardo Piana
“What goes up” by Samar Al Summary
“HAPPY DAY” by Boru Zheng
“People Mountain People Sea” by Bolang Shui
“Gaseous Beings” by Maud Nivet
“WE’VE WORKED SO MUCH (ABBIAMO LAVORATO TANTO)” by directors: Teodora Grano, Bruno Leggieri, poet: Teodora Grano
“The Sky After Rain (Aseman Bad Az Baran)” by director: Blame the Shadows Collective, poet: Payam Feili
“Chiari del Bosco” by director: Sarah Troiano, poet: Antonia Pozzi
“Epicrisis” by Diana Martínez Tancredi
Trailer edit by Rana San

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Congratulations to @alieyalnostudio and all of the participants of this year’s Whitney Biennal💫

So nice to celebrate friends and see hard-working creative folks receiving their well earned flowers! Here are a few favorite moments from Tuesday✨💐✨

Art is JOY, and these days joy is revolutionary🙏🏽

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join us TONIGHT at @now_instant for a film program realized in collaboration with @theicala in conjunction with Samar Al Summary’s current exhibition, ‘Excavating the Sky.’ ☁️🪏📽️ ‘Roaming like desert animals, we understand it’s enough to find a few leaves or drops to slip past another day’ is a film program that brings together work by artists who, like Samar, embrace the medium of film as a form of documentation, resistance, remembering, and imagination and a tool by which to cross the boundaries and borders that might otherwise keep us apart 🔗 Featured artists include: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Basma Al Sharif, Samar Al Summary, Ali Eyal, Layth Kareem, Jumana Manna and Anhar Salem, Ansam Salem, and Doody 🎞️

Many of these artists have also indelibly shaped my relationship to film, and the poetic, incisive, and transformative power of art, and I am so grateful for this chance to present their work in LA 🙏 Films will be screened on loop throughout the day from 11am to 5pm, no RSVP required. Starting at 6pm, the final run of films will be presented followed by a conversation between Samar and myself and a cozy reception.
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[images in order of appearance] Samar Al Summary, Muffled Snapshots (film still), 2020. TRT 02:00 min. Image courtesy of the artist. Anhar Salem, Ansam Salem, and Doody, Love & Revenge (film still), 2021. TRT 31:10 min. © Anhar Salem, Ansam Salem, Doody - “Love & Revenge 2021” غرام وانتقام. Instagram: @livingthefilrelife_000zg. Ali Eyal, Tonight’s Programme (film still), 2017. TRT 14:03 min. Image courtesy of the artist. Lawrence Abu Hamdan, The Diary of a Sky (film still), 2024. TRT 44:00 min. Image courtesy of the artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan. Samar Al Summary, Spooky, ancient, forlorn desert ditties to scare an enemy by (film still), work in process. TRT 05:26 min. Image courtesy of the artist. Basma Al Sharif, We Began by Measuring Distance (film still), 2009. TRT 19:06 min. Still courtesy of the Artist and Imane Farès Gallery Paris. Layth Kareem, City Borders (film still), 2014. TRT 10:42 min. Image courtesy of the artist. Jumana Manna, Blessed Blessed Oblivion (film still), 2011. TRT 21:19 min. Image courtesy of the artist.

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Nnoo #6 arrives this Sunday the 14th at @cafe2001.la
Organized as ever by @harlequinknights @zara_sarina @davidhorvitz
Flier by @zara_sarina

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A 6th NNNOOOOO @cafe2001.la a night of dance sound move wave love life joy folie ciao see you there @davidhorvitz @harlequinknights

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