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Relph documents Rome’s gas outlets through photographic
WORLD-CLASS ART THE GATHERERS depicting labor at a remote data center. Jean Katambayi
prints, and Zhou Tao presents a continuous-motion film

Mukendi, trained as an electrician, maps New York’s energy
networks, while Klara Lidén repositions urban objects, such
as trash cans and electrical boxes, as sculptural forms. The

shifting technological landscapes. Karimah Ashadu’s film
MoMA PS1 presents The Gatherers, a major exhibition exhibition also confronts themes of urban anonymity and
showcasing international artists who repurpose the remnants traces the informal trade routes of Nigerian migrants in
of excess production, failing infrastructure, and political Germany, Geumhyung Jeong arranges tools and electronics
instability to create thought-provoking works. Opening April into unsettling compositions, and Andro Eradze’s dreamlike
24, 2025, the exhibition spans the Museum’s third-floor film unsettles domestic spaces. Meanwhile, He Xiangyu erases
galleries, featuring sculpture, assemblage, painting, video, markers of recognition in hybrid architectural sculptures,
and performance by over a dozen artists, many exhibiting in a Samuel Hindolo paints dystopian urban environments, and
US museum for the first time. This presentation explores how Miho Dohi assembles found objects into intimate sculptural
artists transform discarded materials, revealing the spatialized forms.
politics of memory embedded within built environments. The Gatherers offers a new framework for understanding how
Several works highlight the ongoing effects of post-Soviet artists engage with refuse, reflecting on relationships between
global shifts, including Selma Selman’s salvaged motorized memory, labor, and agency in global urban landscapes.
machines, Tolia Astakhishvili’s unsettling architectural Organized by Ruba Katrib, Chief Curator and Director of
installations, and Ser Serpas’ precariously arranged objects Curatorial Affairs, with Sheldon Gooch, Curatorial Assistant, the
scavenged from New York’s urban landscape. Artists also exhibition is accompanied by a full-color publication featuring
engage with broader concerns about resource utility, labor, essays by leading scholars and curators.
and environmental dangers. Emilija Škarnulytes film examines
the decommissioning of a once-powerful nuclear plant, Nick
Selma Selman. Installation view of Flowers of Life, 2024. Courtesy
SCHIRN. Photo: Norberto Miguelitz

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