Curated by Sara Ickow, Associate Director of Exhibitions, Keisha Scarville Guest Curator, and Elisabeth Sherman, Senior Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections at ICP, To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography features the work of seven artists primarily engaged in photography—Widline Cadet, Koyoltzintli, Tarrah Krajnak, Shala Miller, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Keisha Scarville, and Sasha Wortzel. The exhibition redefines the concept of an archive—beyond merely recovering the past, these artists use the archive as a framework for envisioning new futures.
Moving away from the centrality of the institutional archive, the artists in To Conjure expand its parameters by engaging with materials—clothing, instruments, the landscape and more—beyond photographs and documents alone. By working with a myriad of contemporary materials, these artists create new histories and material sensibilities.
Header image: Keisha Scarville, Untitled #6 from the series Alma/Mama's Clothes, 2016. © Keisha Scarville, courtesy the artist and Higher Pictures
Koyoltzintli, Umiña, 2024. © Koyolzintli
84 Ludlow Street, New York, NY 10002
Jan 23, 2025 – May 05, 2025