Opening Reception: Fall 2025 Exhibitions

Join us for the opening reception to celebrate the three new exhibitions at the List Center, Goldin+Senneby: Flare-Up, American Artist: To Acorn and List Projects 33: Every Ocean Hughes.

The opening reception will follow a performative lecture with exhibiting artist Goldin+Senneby from 5:30-6:30PM.

Exhibiting artists and exhibition curators will be in attendance. Light refreshments and beverages from Momma's Grocery + Wine will be served.

Goldin+Senneby: Flare-Up

The recent work of Stockholm-based artist duo Goldin+Senneby focuses on issues of autoimmunity, accessibility, and ecology. Drawing on the experience of living with multiple sclerosis, the exhibition’s title refers to a treatable aspect of the disease. While the gradual progression of the condition offers limited options for intervention, the sudden flare-ups have attracted significant interest from the pharmaceutical industry, paving the way for lucrative treatments. Flare-Up also alludes to the volatile, inflammable nature of pine resin, which has fueled investment in genetically engineered pines as a potential source of green energy.

American Artist: To Acorn

The multidisciplinary work of American Artist mines the history of technology, race, and knowledge production. Since 2013, when they legally changed their name, American Artist has examined the boundaries and fissures of subject production under racial capitalism. Some bodies of work figure antiblackness as the unspoken subtext of the history of computing: Black Gooey Universe (2021), for instance, features smartphones and computers engulfed by asphalt. Other works have engaged themes of surveillance and opacity: 2015 (2019) overlays an urban street with a simulation of predictive policing software, while Security Theater (2023) turned the rotunda of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum into a sinister panopticon.

List Projects 33: Every Ocean Hughes

“If it is ever possible to diminish fear, it is beautiful to witness.” So says the death doula in Every Ocean Hughes’s recent video installation, One Big Bag (2021). The work—alongside the performances Help the Dead (2019) and River (2023)—is part of a trilogy that considers the intimate process of dying. In One Big Bag, Hughes stages a monologue by a millennial death doula (performed by Lindsay Rico with choreography by Miguel Gutierrez). Surrounded by the objects of her mobile “corpse kit,” the doula assuredly explains her tools: tampons for absorbing fluid, scissors for cutting cloth, bowls for washing, ceremonial bells.

Performative Lecture: Swallow Image with Goldin+Senneby

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

The List Visual Arts Center will host a performative lecture with Goldin+Senneby in celebration of the opening of Goldin+Senneby: Flare-Up.

Swallow Image is a conversation about images of illness and the revision of reality by drug companies as well as authoritarian regimes.