Fridman Gallery is pleased to present Double bind: belonging and its discontents, a group exhibition curated by Catharine Clark featuring works by:

Zeina Barakeh, Sandow Birk, Arleene Correa Valencia, Hiba Kalache, Athena LaTocha, Nate Lewis, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Deborah Oropallo, Andy Rappaport, Daapo Reo, Stephanie Syjuco.

Through drawing, sculpture, textiles, photography, video, installation, painting, and performance, Double Bind explores belonging as both a political condition and a lived experience. While many of the participating artists engage questions of migration, citizenship, public memory, and national identity, the exhibition ultimately asks a broader question: What allows us to feel that we belong?

The exhibition’s title references the paradox at the heart of contemporary belonging. To belong often requires visibility, yet visibility can expose individuals to surveillance, exclusion, or control. To assimilate may provide access and recognition, yet difference remains marked and policed. These contradictions are not abstract. They are experienced through bodies, families, communities, institutions, landscapes, and histories.