Capital T, 2025, salvaged wooden joists from Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, 75 x 60 x 6 in., Installation image by Etienne Frossard

An Incomplete Haunting gathers research-driven and place-based works across photography, video, sculpture, installation, sound, reenactment documentation, and ephemera. Together, these projects demonstrate how art can confront and illuminate the past, making visible stories that official narratives have long obscured. In an era of historical denialism, censorship, book bans, and the criminalization of dissent, the exhibition foregrounds narrative craft as a tool for preserving polyvocal memory and resisting institutional erasure.

The exhibition’s title draws inspiration from Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States and Kevin Young’s The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness, especially Young’s notion of “shadow books”—histories that haunt the ones we hold. In this spirit, An Incomplete Haunting uses contemporary art and exhibition-making to highlight the vital role that creative practice plays in (re)shaping historical interpretation and memory.

An Incomplete Haunting
Curated by Rachel Raphaela Gugelberger
601Artspace, 88 Eldridge Street, NYC
Nov 22, 2025 - Feb 22, 2026
Elvira Clayton, Nona Faustine, Yevgeniy Fiks, Nicholas Galanin, Chitra Ganesh + Mariam Ghani, Ken Gonzales-Day, Kris Grey, Alicia Grullon, Miguel Luciano, Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere, Andrea Ray, Dread Scott, Kenneth Tam, Mark Tribe

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