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Was I Ever Really Here?
630 Flushing Ave, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, New York
April 17th - April 30th, 2025
Curated by Sophie Barfod, Kyle Colón, Anajoara Eom, and Yvetta Zheng
Catalogue Essay
Written by Yvetta Zheng and Anajoara Eom, edited by Kyle Colon. Further edited by Steven Henry Madoff and Isin Onol, under whose guidance this essay was developed.
Project title
This project aims to develop a user-friendly mobile application that enhances productivity and organization. Through intuitive design and seamless functionality, users can efficiently manage tasks, set reminders, and collaborate with team members.
How much different is one person to another?
The idea of self and the other has been ingrained socially, culturally, historically. As cultures collide and merge, they become increasingly intertwined, and the lines that once divided them begin to blur.
There’s a permeability to the sense of the other.
One may find themselves between those blurred lines of division, a space they may have previously thought themselves on one side of. It’s not enough to question one’s place to understand their role as the other. To comprehend this permeability of othering is to acknowledge the duality–and at times a contradictory nature of it.
Through various means of investigation: self parody, interviews, recollection of the archive, and historical analysis, Was i Ever Really Here? seeks to explore not only one’s existence as the other, but also their complicitness in the process.
What does it mean to exist in between?
Image source: Hinda Weiss After the Desert Goat