Curatorial Tour & Closing Reception: Transversal Imprint

Curatorial Tour & Closing Reception
Transversal Imprint: Cultures, Places, Selves

Sunday, November 9, 2025
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Curated by Zixin Shang
Featuring: Ramin Etemadi-Bozorg, Zeqian Hu, Kevin Kwon, Ran Feng, Dina AZ. Salem and Hazal Weil

Join us in the Main Gallery for a special Curatorial Tour and Closing Reception of Transversal Imprint: Cultures, Places, Selves. Explore the inspirations and ideas behind this bold, thought-provoking exhibition as the curator shares insights into its creation and impact. This is your chance to engage in conversation, ask questions, and experience the work from a fresh and personal perspective before it closes.

Presented as part of The DC Arts Center’s Curatorial Initiative, this exhibition brings together six artists from East Asia and the Middle East whose work explores migration, cultural memory, and the imprints left by cross-cultural encounters. Through photography, painting, and installation, the exhibition highlights the fluidity of identity and the transformative power of overlapping cultures.

These artists embody the idea of the transversal—a space where identities shift, overlap, and expand, opening doors to new creative possibilities and fresh perspectives on belonging. Through photography, painting, and mixed-media installation, Transversal Imprint: Cultures, Places, Selves invites audiences to explore how culture leaves its mark on daily life, memory, and the body. The works reflect the complexity of living between worlds, capturing moments of cultural dissonance and discovery within the American experience. Each piece becomes a testament to resilience and reinvention, offering bold new ways to imagine identity and cultural connection.

This exhibition is not bound by a single narrative. Instead, it celebrates the fluidity of stories that emerge when traditions meet and intertwine. The artists draw on their East Asian and Middle Eastern roots to create a space of dialogue, movement, and infinite possibility—forming a unique cultural landscape where a multitude of voices can coexist and flourish.

With Transversal Imprint: Cultures, Places, Selves, curator Zixin Shang invites viewers to engage with powerful cross-cultural expressions, discover resonant new voices, and help shape an arts community that is diverse, inclusive, and alive with creative energy.

Learn more about this exhibition at dcartscenter.org/transversalimprint