Verifying Identity ... Please Log In
November 6 - November 20, 2025
13 Grattan St, #402, Brooklyn, NY, 11206
New York - A Space is pleased to present Verifying Identity... Please Log In, a group exhibition that invites viewers to revisit what has been forgotten or left unresolved. Here, identity is not a fixed code to retrieve, but an evolving process of failed attempts, revisions, and incomplete logins. What once felt awkward or uncertain was never an error, but an early gesture toward visibility—a first effort to take form within the world. Through this lens, the exhibition explores identity as something perpetually provisional, shaped by both memory and transformation.
The exhibition opens with In Fragments of Now by Marina Chisty. Chisty explores identity as an evolving process through materials that move, erode, and transform—capturing moments of change before form settles. Lucky Toad by Matthew DeLuca transforms loss and heartbreak into a digital metaphor, using glitches and symbols of luck to explore identity, grief, and the uncertainty of becoming. Finger Catcut and Speaking with Ribbed Tongue by Madeline Eldridge are part of the series warm milk, which explores the complex, intertwined relationships between humans and domesticated animals.
Warm milk symbolizes caregiving, domesticity, and comfort—often tied to maternal associations and the familiarity of cow’s milk in domestic life.traces language as drawing and collage as thought, transforming mark-making into a silent form of writing—an automatic gesture toward presence. Magic Shop by Iris Geng presents a small world where ordinary objects are imbued with magic. Eachitem seems to hold its own story, tools, potions, and plants coexist in a space between daily life and imagination. Nuclear Family Unit by Siavash Golkar renders surrealist bodies fractured and incomplete, meditating on self-worth and the human cost of conformity in a modern world of valuation and loss.
Mishmash by Michael Alexander Pio Harper confronts the fractured legacies of Futurism and the historical avant-garde; between club lights and mechanical rhythms, the works capture the queer pulse of modernity—fragmented, ecstatic, and self-aware. In Bugs, Julianna Hellerman explores the decay of digital and physical archives, where dissolving NFC cards and disappearing links reveal the fragility of memory and connection. Sliding Window by Yu Lee invites viewers to engage with a virtual window that reveals and conceals their reflection through layers of filters. It explores the tension between exposure and invisibility that defines life within networked spaces, where identity is always under construction and never fully authenticated. Meshing w myself #2 by Jordan Metz explores how digital technology replicates and stores our physical selves, creating surreal spaces where fragmented versions of identity converge.
In wheretheweatherisalwaysnice, Vivmoe Moench reimagines the iconic Windows XP “Bliss” landscape as a nostalgic digital Eden, where memory, identity, and technology blur. Through the slowness of oil paint, the work transforms fleeting online aesthetics into a tactile reflection on the loss and longing embedded in early internet culture. In Sweet Honey: Rules of Being an Alien, Anna Ren explores the delicate tension between belonging and otherness in a foreign land. Through the metaphor of honey—both sweet and stinging—the film reveals the subtle microaggressions and shifting identities that define the immigrant experience.
In It’s not easy, but I’m trying, Katrina Shafor explores love, change, and the ongoing effort to heal and stay connected amid emotional distance. The Beast that Shouted “I” at the Heart of the World by Harper Shen unfolds as a collage of surreal nostalgia. Through game design and writing, Shen transforms states of liminality into spaces of play, constructing dreamlike worlds that probe the shifting boundaries of self and perception.
In Untitled, Jane Yu turns the overlooked into the luminous; with a cinematic sensibility, her photographs render the ordinary fragile and poetic, balancing anxiety, restlessness, and quiet grace. Perfect Woman by Judy Zhao examines the digital female identity as a fragmented construct shaped by misogyny, fetishization, and impossible ideals imposed by the online gaze. Finally, In Field #2, Herok explores memory as a dynamic, layered process, transforming bodily movement data and tactile mark-making into surfaces that embody the continuous reconstruction of experience over time.
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