10/03/2025
OPENING OCTOBER 17TH: Ecologies of the In\between
Featuring Johanna Hedva, CAConrad, Kelsey Shultis, and Báyò Akómoláfé
Join us for an opening celebration on Friday, October 17th, 5-7pm at Gallery 51, 51 Main St. North Adams, MA.
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"end of the world how did you get in my imagination" -CAConrad
This exhibition is an invitation to the in\between — a proximal zone of time and space that holds the tensions and potentialities between what was, what is, and what can be. A littoral contact site of relationality where our feelings and capacities shore up against perceived limits, the in\between toggles us in modes of estrangement as capacious as they are disorienting. Texturing what it means to be “living in the end times,” the in\between is moved by minor gestures, prompting us to otherly inhabit the late hours of modernity when structures of dominance are simultaneously being reinforced and dismantled. Distancing itself from apocalyptic rhetoric, the in\between reminds us that ends and beginnings coexist, ecologically.
How might we feel, care, create, think, love, teach, act, learn, and relate otherwise if we loosen our attachments to the end? Ecologies of the In\between brings together four artists — Johanna Hedva, CAConrad, Kelsey Shultis, and Báyò Akómoláfé — whose work collectively moves across and between forms — drawing, painting, sculpture, poetry, sound — in an embrace of pluralities, thresholds, and portals. Here, doom exists alongside possibility, resistance moves with surrender, and affinity brushes up against antipathy.
Ecologies of the In\between is curated by Dr. Victoria Papa, Associate Professor of English & Visual Culture at MCLA.
Link in bio for more information.
Collage slide featuring artworks by Johanna Hedva, Kelsey Shultis, and CAConrad.
Original audio from Báyò Akómoláfé’s forthcoming sound installation, “Vestigial Scripts," produced by Alex Miller.
Báyò Akómoláfé of the
