UPCOMING EXHIBITION

Liselot van der Heijden, *Untitled (Columbus #2), 2024, cut out color prints in frame, 16”x20”*

tugging at the seams

January 21, 2025 – February 25, 2026
Opening Reception: January 21, 6–8 pm

EFA Studios
323 West 39th St., New York, NY, 3rd Floor
Hours: Tue–Fri, 12–5 pm

AYDO (A young Yu & Nicholas Oh)
Liselot van der Heijden
Whitney Oldenburg
Bundith Phunsombatlert
Maria D. Rapicavoli
Yali Romagoza
Finnegan Shannon

Curated by Johanna Laub

What happens if we unravel that which binds us? Curiously, carefully or perhaps forcefully pulling thread by thread until the whole thing comes apart might, after all, be a good place from which to start rebuilding. The group exhibition tugging at the seams brings together EFA members who explore actions and states of (dis)repair. Responding to personal experiences as well as structural forms of violence, displacement, suppression, and exclusion, these artists cultivate repair as much as they might refuse it.

Working towards care, reconnection and change begins for some by questioning the conditions that impede them, while others invent highly personal or speculative practices that deviate from expected forms of reconstruction. The notion of (dis)repair offers a chance to critically rethink the forces and desires through which wholeness, fragmentation, and worth are assigned to the world – and to potentially subvert them in the process.