COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
IN THIS MOMENT
Collective Exhibition, 2026
The Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery
Brooklyn, New York
Presented as part of the collective exhibition “In This Moment: Pratt Students + W.E.B. Du Bois,” Contemporary Cosmologies enters into dialogue with broader questions surrounding systems of knowledge, coexistence, labor, and the social structures that shape contemporary life. Inspired by Du Bois’s legacy of critically examining the conditions that organize society and human relations, the work reflects on the invisible infrastructures that connect individuals through material culture, consumption, and shared environments.
Through the use of lint collected from a local laundromat and a hand-crafted bio-membrane made from gelatin, glycerin, and water, the project investigates the tensions between ancestral systems grounded in reciprocity and contemporary cultures shaped by extraction, acceleration, and disposal. Lint becomes a communal residue — carrying traces of countless lives, routines, and bodies — while gelatin reintroduces the visceral presence of animal matter and histories tied to survival, nourishment, and interdependence. Bound together through a slow and tactile process of hand-making, these materials expose the friction between industrial systems and embodied forms of knowledge, between waste and care, intimacy and distance. Neither object nor garment, skin nor artifact, the resulting surface resists fixed categorization, operating instead as a space where contemporary material culture, memory, labor, and ecological relations become entangled. Within the context of the exhibition, the work proposes materiality itself as a site through which larger social, cultural, and political realities can be sensed, questioned, and reimagined.
MATERIAL LAB PRIZE
Collective Exhibition, 2025
Juliana Curran Terian Gallery
Pratt Institute, New York
Magnetic Dust and Unfolded were exhibited as part of the curated Material Lab Prize 2025 at Pratt Institute, New York. The annual exhibition celebrates experimental approaches to materiality, craft, and sustainability across disciplines.
Magnetic Dust received an Honorable Mention for its exploration of transformation, waste, and the unexpected behaviors of matter. The project reclaims steel dust — a byproduct of metal fabrication — to create handmade papers with magnetic properties. Fine steel residue collected from Pratt Institute’s Production Labs is blended with recycled white paper pulp and formed through sifting, mixing, and hand-pulling. The rust-colored tone emerges not from pigment but from the natural oxidation of embedded steel, giving each sheet a living, shifting quality. The magnetic response was not engineered but discovered, turning material recovery into an inquiry into unpredictability and the poetic potential of residue.
Unfolded extends this investigation into material behavior through a sculptural lighting piece made from folded and welded steel sheets. Developed through iterative processes of cutting, bending, and balancing, the work explores the tension between rigidity and lightness, structure and gesture. When illuminated, its form reveals traces of fabrication — the hand’s precision, imperfection, and rhythm — transforming industrial material into a vessel of sensorial experience.
Together, these works reflect an ongoing inquiry into transformation through design — where making becomes both method and reflection, and materials act as collaborators in revealing their own possibilities.