"Zeina Barakeh: CYBOTAGE" March 22 - May 24, 2025

"CYBOTAGE" is Zeina Barakeh’s third presentation with Catharine Clark Gallery and her first full gallery exhibition. Encompassing projection and video, Barakeh’s exhibition invites viewers into an immersive space where art, biology, global security, and social science converge. Named after its central body of work, this series of animated digital colossi probes the ethical dilemmas of human enhancement technologies—sparking dialogue on their impact on society and the environment. Inspired by the colossal guardian statues of Ancient Egypt’s Abu Simbel, these figures, constructed from MRI-like scans overlaid with mapping systems, stand as “guardians” of cyberspace, projected onto landmark facades, skyscrapers, or displayed indoors, as is the case in the gallery, where the figures take the form of floor-to-ceiling projections. Drawing from the legacy of Ancient Egyptian colossi, "CYBOTAGE" reflects on humanity’s shifting relationship with technology—from the permanence of carved stone to the ephemeral nature of digital pixels. Reimagining the colossus as a "deity" of the internet age, these projected figures question our dependence on cyberspace as a modern temple and the unseen forces that govern and protect our digital existence.

Andy Diaz Hope: Yesterday's Tomorrows March 22 - May 24, 2025

"Yesterday’s Tomorrows" is Andy Diaz Hope’s sixth exhibition with the gallery. Diaz Hope framed his previous collaborative exhibition with Laurel Roth Hope, "An Inexhaustive Study of Power," as an exploration of how hierarchies are built into systems, how power changes over time, and who benefits from it. In his latest body of work, Diaz Hope continues this investigation through the lens of speculative futures. Diaz Hope combines traditional craft techniques (stained glass, silkscreen, and collage) with new technologies (3D printing, deep space imaging, and A.I. image generation) to evoke this tension between nostalgia for an analogue past amidst an increasingly unstable and uncertain technological present.

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Zeina Barakeh, detail of "CYBOTAGE," 2025.

Andy Diaz Hope, detail of "Tulare Lake II," 2025.