What We Hold On To: Exhibition Closing Potluck

We invite you to bring a dish that you've held on to over the years—perhaps something scrumptious tied to a personal tradition, your cultural heritage, or a particular memory.

Local spiritualist Erica Walker Adams will be onsite throughout the evening, offering free tarot card pulls that meet the exhibition themes of what we hold on to.

Free + open to the public with RSVP. Capacity is limited!

Know Before You Go:

• Parking: BCHQ has a parking lot on site. If the lot is full, additional street parking is available on S Umatilla St, W Bates Ave, and W Cornell Ave. See a street parking map here.
• Accessibility: While our building presents certain accessibility challenges, we are dedicated to supporting visitors who require accommodations. Our space is located on the second floor and currently requires the use of a stairway (sixteen 7" steps on an metal open riser staircase with a handrail + seven 7.5" steps on a concrete closed riser staircase with a handrail). Ramp accommodations can be arranged with advance notice; please reach out to hello@blackcube.art for assistance.
• We kindly ask that you refrain from bringing refreshments into the exhibition area; please enjoy them exclusively in the bar/high top table area.

About the Exhibition:

What We Hold On To is a group exhibition that explores the concept of storage—not just as a logistical process, but as an emotional, psychological, and cultural condition as well. Presented at Black Cube Headquarters (BCHQ) in a former industrial warehouse, this exhibition gathers local, national, and international artists whose works consider storage in an expanded sense: through trauma and memory, loss and tradition, hoarding and healing, preservation and release.

Referencing the building’s storage function as well as the behind-the-scenes infrastructure of collecting museums, artworks in What We Hold On To are presented on pallet racking, a common industrial storage system. This racking is sheathed in translucent, hand-sewn fabric panels intended to both display and conceal. As you meander through this ghostly exhibition hall, we invite you to mull over the following: What do we choose to maintain, preserve, or hide away? What is archived, inherited, or left behind?

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Header image: Laleh Mehran, What the Air Carries, 2025, multimedia sculpture. During the opening reception for What We Hold On To, Black Cube Headquarters (BCHQ), Englewood, Colorado. Courtesy the artist and Black Cube. Photo: Sara Ford.