Madi Diaz
On View
Area 405
405 E Oliver ST, Baltimore MD
Pitted: Home at the Heart of an Empire
Opening on October 10th from 5-9pm at Area 405, presented by PULP Collective. Curated by Mina Sarfaraz and Nadia NazarGrowing up under the rapid synchronized development of the internet and the climate crisis, impermanence has dictated our lives. As witnesses of industrialization’s indefinite expansion, we wonder how to root ourselves in a foundation that bears constant extraction, extinction, and exploitation. We ground ourselves in the cultivating of homes, in remembering what was and fostering what could be. What if we stick our hands in the soil? What if we shape the air? Blow the dust off of our fingertips? What if we let things get dirty?
Can the Earth afford our dream of living?
Soft Power: Reimagining Form and Feeling
November 20 - January 10, 2026
Galerie Shibumi
261 w 35th st FL 14
New York, NY 10001
This exhibition gathers a group of artists whose practices stretch, knot, weave, drape,
and assemble soft materials into spaces of inquiry and transformation. Each artist
uses sculpture as a way to reimagine what it means to hold weight, to occupy space,
and to invite intimacy. Together, their works propose that softness is not weakness
but a radical gesture, an insistence on tenderness, process, and care in a world that
often privileges hardness, speed, and efficiency.
Material as Memory, Process as Resistance
The participating artists approach material not as a neutral tool but as a site of
history, memory, and transformation.