(Providence, RI) 

360,000 umbilical cords were cut today.
A deer has been struck by a car and met its demise.

What emerges from our hands never leaves the body.
Everything we create repeatedly translates its vulnerability.

Our work addresses bodies in the aftermath of events:
bodies that exist after irreversible change, after conditions have already been ‘decided’.

This exhibition lingers with the irreversible. It attends to bodies that are passed over and brushed aside, to lives that were never fully acknowledged as worthy of care; it remains as a state of being. How we differentiate between bodies, deciding which deserve attention and which do not, ultimately mirrors how we evaluate and treat ourselves. 

An abandoned helmet grew skin and gestated life.

Glass and ceramic salvaged bodies from decay.

Lanternflies crushed to death rebirthed into steel.

—— Jungeun Park (Artist and Curator)

About the Artists

Jungeun Park (b. 1999). Her work investigates the ethical complexities inherent in inhabiting a living body through the monumentalization of thoughts drawn from the everyday and often regarded as abject or trivial. She earned her BFA in Visual Arts from the Korea National University of Arts, studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, and completed her MFA in Glass at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Carrie Kouts (b. 1995) uses discarded human-made materials and roadkilled animals to create sculptural rituals of care. She received her BFA in sculpture from the University of Central Oklahoma and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2025.  Her practice explores the indeterminate nature of classifications that create divisions between human and non-human, natural and unnatural, scientific and instinctual.

Nahom Ghebredngl (b. 2000) is an Eritrean American sculptor and installation artist. His work centers on leveraging failure and tactility, and creating interfaces for exploring the interpersonal and embodied. Nahom Ghebredngl has a B.S. in Computer Science from Michigan State University. He lives and works in Providence, RI, where he is pursuing an MFA in Sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Maha Mohan (b.1996) is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York and India. Her practice explores emotional imprinting through ceramic sculpture, drawing, and installation. She examines how experiences of emotional absence shape the body, self-worth, and adult intimacy through inherited patterns of vulnerability, longing, and repetition. Mohan received her MFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design and is currently a printmaking resident at the Lower East Side Printshop, New York.