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Thank you to Harvard Magazine for this thoughtful feature!

In “Resculpting an Empire, Through Kitchen Scraps,” Gibson explores Waves Move Bile by Harvard alumni Enzo Camacho (VES ’07) and Ami Lien (VES ’09), currently on view at the Carpenter Center as part of, Knowledge Is Myth: Chimeric Continuities.

Read the full article at the 🔗link in our bio.

Artists Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien return to the Carpenter Center and Harvard Art Museums in early November for additional public programs. Details at the link in our bio!

Knowledge Is Myth: Chimeric Continuities, curated by Danni Shen, is on view through December 13, 2026.

Stop by this weekend! Open Tuesday–Sunday, 12:00–5:00 pm.

Free and open to the public.

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Knowledge Is Myth: Chimeric Continuities opened last week at @carpenter_center_harvard and is on view through December 13

The installation in the first image brings together independently titled works made between 2018 and 2026, alongside reworked elements, in a new display under the umbrella title:

Here lies all his love of life. For what gives value to travel is fear: deprived of our mask, completely surface. Soul-sick, miraculously, the whole of life. The whole of lie.
(Second Manifesto)
2026
Burnt linen, bronze, marble, cherry, facsimile case

Also pictured is Orthros, 2019, and a few moments from last week’s artist talk.

Thank you Danni @danni_sh and Kate @katemcn , it’s been such a pleasure working with you both. I’m so grateful. It was a mesmerizing fever dream to share the conversation with Ami, @aydo_studio , and Danni last week. Thank you to the Carpenter Center team and everyone who joined us for the opening and talk.

Organized by Danni Shen, with Enzo Camacho & Ami Lien, Candice Lin, AYDO (Ayoung Yu & Nicholas Oh), and Cole Lu

2 & 4: Danni Shen
7–8: Courtesy the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University. Photo: Susan Young

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Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for the opening of Knowledge Is Myth: Chimeric Continuities!

It was wonderful to welcome so many of you to the Carpenter Center for the artist talk and opening reception.

Featuring work by Enzo Camacho & Ami Lien, Candice Lin, Cole Lu, and AYDO (Ayoung Yu & Nicholas Oh), and organized by curator Danni Shen, the exhibition is on view through December 13, 2026.

Free and open to the public.

🔗 Visit the link in bio for exhibition details and upcoming public programs.

Photos by Jodi Hilton.

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Opening next Thursday!

Join us October 1 for the opening of Knowledge Is Myth: Chimeric Continuities, featuring work by Enzo Camacho & Ami Lien, Candice Lin, Cole Lu, and AYDO (Ayoung Yu & Nicholas Oh).

6:00–7:00 pm
Artist Talk with Ami Lien, Cole Lu, and AYDO (Ayoung Yu and Nicholas Oh), moderated by curator Danni Shen
Lower Level Theater

7:00–9:00 pm
Opening Reception
Levels 1 + 3

Free and open to the public.

Knowledge Is Myth: Chimeric Continuities
October 1–December 13, 2026

🔗 Visit the link in bio for exhibition and program details.

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Welcome back to campus!

Save the date for our upcoming fall exhibitions and programs.

Opening October 1:
Knowledge Is Myth: Chimeric Continuities

Organized by Danni Shen, Knowledge Is Myth: Chimeric Continuities features work by Enzo Camacho & Ami Lien, Candice Lin, Cole Lu, and AYDO (Ayoung Yu & Nicholas Oh), and is on view October 1–December 13 on Level 3.

Opening October 22:
Constitutive Outside

Organized by 2026 Curatorial Research Fellow Tarik Garrett, Constitutive Outside brings together works by Markele Cullins, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Steffani Jemison, and Rindon Johnson, and is on view October 22–December 13 in the AUX: Intermedia Gallery on Level 1.

🔗 Link in bio for all exhibition details, upcoming programs, and newsletter sign-up.

Free and open to the public.

*Graphic design by RELATED DEPARTMENT

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Summer backyard evenings 📽️🌳🌅📸 @_thehalleffect

#photos #summer #zencenter #sangha #community

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A summer afternoon well spent with the Carpenter Center team exploring Walter Gropius House (1938) in Lincoln, MA. Designed as Gropius’s family home after he arrived to teach at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, the house is both a landmark of modernism and an intimate portrait of a creative life.

It was fascinating to imagine the conversations that unfolded here, with guests including Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer, Joan Miró, and Igor Stravinsky. One of my favorite details was Gropius’s desk, still lined with small sculptures gifted by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.

I was especially excited to learn more about Ise Gropius, whose influence on the house,and on Walter’s career and the Bauhaus legacy, was profound. Her imprint is visible, from her thoughtful role in shaping the home to the earrings she fashioned from simple metal washers. A beautiful reminder that modernism wasn’t only about buildings, but also about the inventive ways people chose to live within them.
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#waltergropius #isegropius #bauhaus

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Carpenter Center Staff Picks!

One of the joys of Salad Days: Primary Information is discovering publications you might not have encountered before.

This week from the out-of-print section, curator Danni Shen @danni_sh recommends 'Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network 1990–2001,' edited by Howie Chen. Bringing together essays, correspondence, newsletters, photographs, and archival ephemera, the publication traces the history of the groundbreaking collective that championed Asian American artists and challenged exclusion within the art world throughout the 1990s. Both a rich historical archive and a testament to the power of collective organizing, it's an essential read for anyone interested in contemporary art, activism, and publishing.

"Given the wide-ranging activities of Godzilla, beyond exhibition making and visual material, this compendium is such a valuable resource on their collective, far-reaching work. Also shoutout to other books in the image: Trinh T. Minh-ha's The Twofold Commitment and Martin Wong's Footprints, Poems, and Leaves."
—Danni Shen

Salad Days: Primary Information is on view through August 16.

Open Thursday–Sunday, 12–5pm
*Closed on Saturday, July 4

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Fifty years ago Ko Bong Zen Master gave transmission to Zen Master Seung Sahn, saying “You are the flower and I am the bee.” But, if the whole world is a single flower, then who is the bee? 🌷

#thewholewordisasingleflower #cambridge #cambridgezencenter #zencenter #boston
📸 @danni_sh

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Initially conceived as a series of performances in Chinatown, “Temple of Our Ancestral Dreams” a group exhibition at @paoartscenter curated by Wenxuan Xue (@innerchildsings) and Sung-Min Kim (@skimmilk.png), brings together an intergenerational group of artists—Lani Asunción, Feda Eid, Kenneth Eng, Zhonghe (Elena) Li, Joanna Tam, Yolanda He Yang, Ying Ye, and Michelle “Mimi” Zhang—to consider the material expressions of kinship and shared lineage though a wide range of media.

In this discerning quick bit, writer Danni Shen (@danni_sh) examines how the works on view embrace conditions such as segregated burial grounds, neighborhood erasure, grassroots organizing, and daily acts of care to trace histories of resilience and loss. The works, as she writes, “evoke the Chinese character ren 忍, meaning ‘to endure,’ which I have long held spiritually dear, its radicals placing a knife’s edge over a heart.”

Read more at bostonartreview.com

Pictured: Installation view, “Temple of Our Ancestral Dreams,” Pao Arts Center, Boston MA, 2026. Photo by Mel Taing. Courtesy of Pao Arts Center.

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Happy earth day 🌎🌍🌏 and perceive world sound!

In the Genjō Koan (13th C.), Zen Master Eihei Dōgen wrote on non-dualistic worlding and the interconnection between all things, an ecological view 🌼 “To study the Buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by ten thousand things. When enlightened by ten thousand things, the body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away.”

graphics @danni_sh

#dogen #earthday #zen #tenthousandthings #zenquote

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Wonderful days of sharing and opening my work and research at Harvard Art, Film and Visual Studies department :)Thank you the Carpenter Center and Harvard AFV for having me and thank you IDFA Bertha Funds for bringing me and The Bag of the Night there 🌌🌌🌌

@harvardafvs
@idfafestival
@anavilhana_filmes
@foibonitaafesta

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