Here’s your last chance to experience the final group exhibition by the Cornell University MFA class of 2025, featuring works by artists Adrian Aguilera, Elina Ansary, Andy Nicholas Li, Hyunjin Park, and Sopheak Sam. Curated collaboratively by these five artists, Even the Phrase Each Other is on view through May 31 at Ortega y Gasset Projects in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
The exhibition title references a line of poetry from Jalal al-Din Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks, to gesture towards ideas of “coming together” through chance, chaos, and cosmological entanglements. Spanning painting, prints, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, and video, these artists engage the viewer through the cultural contexts that shape them — drawing from ancestral ties to Mexico, Afghanistan, Finland, China, South Korea, and Cambodia. Their works navigate the space between insider and outsider as the exhibition slowly unfolds into fragmentary memories of a war-torn “past,” the desirous and contested gaze of masculinity, elegies for human and non-human lives, and dissection of language and digital images. Together, these artists aim to invoke the ways through which death, distance, and desire imprint themselves upon our bodies and ways of being — to reflect the discomfort and wonder of our collective moment.
Visitors will also receive a free risograph print by MFA artist Adrian Aguilera.
The two-year Master of Fine Arts in Creative Visual Arts program at Cornell is an intensive, intimate, and diverse community that supports both interdisciplinary and medium-specific practices, augmented by access to Cornell University’s breadth of fields of study.
Location
Ortega y Gasset Projects
The Old American Can Factory
363 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Gallery Hours
Friday–Sunday, 1pm–6pm (or by appointment)
For more information, visit aap.cornell.edu.