83% Perfect

Someone once told me that I was born under the banner of “I have to be perfect.” She said that this is the key imperative that I have lived with since birth. This project is, in some ways, an attempt to understand this.

Some of the artworks are based on my formative encounters with systems of individual ranking and assessment. Others derive from the past couple years of institutional hypocrisy and complicity in genocide. The exhibition overall tries to make clear how these two things are related: how humanity, when defined as achievement, is easily made worthless.

The accompanying publication is a kind of children’s book about the appeal of compliance and the necessity of solidarity. There is a new animation made in collaboration with Emerson Maxwell.

Opening Sept. 25, 2025, 6-8pm.