LOVE LETTERS TO ALIENS
Southern Exposure
October 25, 2025-February 7, 2026
Featuring: Rana Hamadeh, Xandra Ibarra, Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo, Maryam Tafakory, and Yue Xiang
With performances by Roco Córdova and more!
Southern Exposure presents Love Letters to Aliens, an exhibition and event series curated by artist Sholeh Asgary. The exhibition, with work by Rana Hamadeh, Xandra Ibarra, Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo, Maryam Tafakory, and Yue Xiang, considers the notion of the alien in its most expansive sense - from the extraterrestrial to the intimate. The project is framed by the drawn, decomposed, or transgressed borders of bodies, land, and matter. It examines how seduction, repulsion, and obfuscation can function as strategies of survival and acts of celebration in the erosion of entrenched systems.
The artists of Love Letters to Aliens incorporate various mediums and methodologies in their works, which include sculpture, drawing, performance, video, and grief work. Collectively, these works show the ways in which archives, affect, and material can render certain lives legible while withholding others. They ask us to meet their works from the edge.
Asgary (b. Iran 1982) is a member of Southern Exposure's Curatorial Council and an artist who engages performance, interdisciplinary forms, and collective processes to investigate, memorialize, and express the complexities of joy and survival inherent in diasporic and refugee experiences.
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Southern Exposure
October 25, 2025-February 7, 2026
Featuring: Rana Hamadeh, Xandra Ibarra, Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo, Maryam Tafakory, and Yue Xiang
With performances by Roco Córdova and more!
Southern Exposure presents Love Letters to Aliens, an exhibition and event series curated by artist Sholeh Asgary. The exhibition, with work by Rana Hamadeh, Xandra Ibarra, Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo, Maryam Tafakory, and Yue Xiang, considers the notion of the alien in its most expansive sense - from the extraterrestrial to the intimate. The project is framed by the drawn, decomposed, or transgressed borders of bodies, land, and matter. It examines how seduction, repulsion, and obfuscation can function as strategies of survival and acts of celebration in the erosion of entrenched systems.
The artists of Love Letters to Aliens incorporate various mediums and methodologies in their works, which include sculpture, drawing, performance, video, and grief work. Collectively, these works show the ways in which archives, affect, and material can render certain lives legible while withholding others. They ask us to meet their works from the edge.
Asgary (b. Iran 1982) is a member of Southern Exposure's Curatorial Council and an artist who engages performance, interdisciplinary forms, and collective processes to investigate, memorialize, and express the complexities of joy and survival inherent in diasporic and refugee experiences.
LOVE LETTERS TO ALIENS
Southern Exposure
October 25, 2025-February 7, 2026
Featuring: Rana Hamadeh, Xandra Ibarra, Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo, Maryam Tafakory, and Yue Xiang
With performances by Roco Córdova and more!
Southern Exposure presents Love Letters to Aliens, an exhibition and event series curated by artist Sholeh Asgary. The exhibition, with work by Rana Hamadeh, Xandra Ibarra, Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo, Maryam Tafakory, and Yue Xiang, considers the notion of the alien in its most expansive sense - from the extraterrestrial to the intimate. The project is framed by the drawn, decomposed, or transgressed borders of bodies, land, and matter. It examines how seduction, repulsion, and obfuscation can function as strategies of survival and acts of celebration in the erosion of entrenched systems.
The artists of Love Letters to Aliens incorporate various mediums and methodologies in their works, which include sculpture, drawing, performance, video, and grief work. Collectively, these works show the ways in which archives, affect, and material can render certain lives legible while withholding others. They ask us to meet their works from the edge.
Asgary (b. Iran 1982) is a member of Southern Exposure's Curatorial Council and an artist who engages performance, interdisciplinary forms, and collective processes to investigate, memorialize, and express the complexities of joy and survival inherent in diasporic and refugee experiences.
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Southern Exposure
October 25, 2025-February 7, 2026
Featuring: Rana Hamadeh, Xandra Ibarra, Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo, Maryam Tafakory, and Yue Xiang
With performances by Roco Córdova and more!
Southern Exposure presents Love Letters to Aliens, an exhibition and event series curated by artist Sholeh Asgary. The exhibition, with work by Rana Hamadeh, Xandra Ibarra, Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo, Maryam Tafakory, and Yue Xiang, considers the notion of the alien in its most expansive sense - from the extraterrestrial to the intimate. The project is framed by the drawn, decomposed, or transgressed borders of bodies, land, and matter. It examines how seduction, repulsion, and obfuscation can function as strategies of survival and acts of celebration in the erosion of entrenched systems.
The artists of Love Letters to Aliens incorporate various mediums and methodologies in their works, which include sculpture, drawing, performance, video, and grief work. Collectively, these works show the ways in which archives, affect, and material can render certain lives legible while withholding others. They ask us to meet their works from the edge.
Asgary (b. Iran 1982) is a member of Southern Exposure's Curatorial Council and an artist who engages performance, interdisciplinary forms, and collective processes to investigate, memorialize, and express the complexities of joy and survival inherent in diasporic and refugee experiences.
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