Join us for a free opening reception celebrating Spasial Program by Khajistan and In Practice: Kevin Hernández Rosa.
Spasial Program by Khajistan
On view Jun 19–Jul 28, 2025
Born in 9th-century Herat, Afghanistan, today Khajistan lives on as an archive founded by Saad Khan. Khajistan saves, digitizes, and distributes art, words, and media from forgotten or silenced communities, stretching from the Indus to the Maghreb. Their work addresses gaps or losses of diverse local cultural expression within mainstream “global” media settings while considering how changing Western technologies (and a lopsided internet) risk intensifying the cultural disappearance of marginalized communities.
In 2025, Khajistan’s growing digital archive has over 85,000 community-contributed photos and videos, while Toshakhana, Khajistan’s physical archive, contains the world’s largest collection of Pakistani film memorabilia, rare gems like Islamicate Judaica, censored and discontinued Urdu, Farsi, and Arabic magazines, and American and local war propaganda.
At SculptureCenter, Khajistan presents a #spasialprogram, opening its vault of banned, censored, and overlooked audiovisual and print media, alongside a weekend bazaar.
In Practice: Kevin Hernández Rosa
On view Jun 19–Jul 28, 2025
Kevin Hernández Rosa often makes sculpture that alludes to the body in discomfort, whether in the course of normal regulation, in response to harsh environments, or under direct assault. His materials for his forthcoming In Practice exhibition include modified found objects alongside carved, welded, and assembled forms. Hernández Rosa will exhibit new works linking a wooden revolver prototype whittled by Samuel Colt circa 1830 – a impotent but sinister folk object of sorts, now in a special firearms collection in Connecticut – to conditions of violence today.
