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Materials: Exhibition Text 1, Exhibition Text 2, Works List

Nicolás Colón, Yiming Clara, Hyungtae Kim, Shannon Kim, Emmanuel Roch, Alejandra Perez Rotondo, Samuel Wildman
The Chair
2025.12.01 – 2025.12.14

On this occasion, I attempt to bring together some forceful encounters within the gravitational field of my locality, as they are figurated through questions and images, fragments of manuscripts and long-awaited sculptures, and, of course, poetry. These are the things that resurface infinitely in my mind as residue of a much longer conversation, affinity, and imagination that have opened to a widening joy. This, as Alejandra says, is our attempt at a coherence that is against the world. This is perhaps the unfolding of a natural evolution from a year of tea gatherings, only now borrowing a new ritual.

Nicolás Colón is the founding director of Climate Control, a contemporary art gallery in San Francisco. His artistic practice, whether intimate or public, looks for new worlds within our everyday relationships; Yiming Clara is an artist based between Beijing and Berkeley. She is interested in how modes of seeing and being are constructed and how their supposed solidity can be unsettled; Hyungtae Kim is a PhD candidate in English at UC Berkeley and a Research Fellow at Ortuzar Projects. He writes about hesitation and Black art; Shannon Kim is an undergraduate student studying Political Economy with a concentration in financialization's implications in arts and culture; Emmanuel Roch is a master's student at École Universitaire de Recherche ArTeC in Paris and has a background in philosophy; Alejandra Perez Rotondo is a PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology at UC Berkeley. She writes about the prophetic and institutions in Ethiopia; Samuel Wildman is an artist based in the Bay Area.

Alejandra Perez Rotondo
Prière d’insérer/ général brouillon
2025
inkjet prints on paper (notes, manuscript pages), graphite
on paper, ink on paper
dimensions variable

Nicolás Colón
Theater of Forgiveness
2025
unfinished manuscript; chromogenic color prints; printed
transparencies; silver sun pendant; ginkgo nuts; wood tea
table
13 ½” x 78 ½” x 24”

Hyungtae Kim
A Chair 10 Events for Apollo (excerpts from Out of the Blue)
2023
chromogenic color prints; shower head; hardware
42 ½” x 21” x 12”

Shannon Kim
Word as Square—In a Manner of Speaking
2025
participatory live performance (19:40, 20:00, 20:20,
20:40), wooden chairs
dimensions variable

Samuel Wildman
A Small Domestic Crisis: Unplanned Fountain
2021
found cardboard box, subway tiles, bath faucet, water
20 ¾” x 10 ¾” x 10 ½”

Emmanuel Roch
A convenient grammatical fiction
2025
inkjet prints, glass clip frames
dimensions variable

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Opening Reception
Photos by Lucas Santana