Fever Dream: Group Show Curated by Sascha Lewit

Palo Gallery (NEW YORK, NY) is pleased to present Fever Dream, a group show bringing together eight artists whose practices interrogate, dismantle, and expand the traditional concept of the archive. Curated by Gallery Director Sascha Lewit, the show will feature works by Sebastian Ore Blas, Zion Estrada, Paulina Freifeld, Andrea Orejarena, Richard Prince, Danny Sobor, Atticus Wakefield, and Amin Yousefi. Fever Dream intends to frame the archive not as a stagnant historical repository, but as a living, shifting, and contested site of contemporary storytelling. Referencing Okwui Enwenzor's Archive Fever, the title of the show calls to his writing and the general sense of informational deluge that often accompanies archival research and work. At the center of how information, societal narratives, and mythologies are organized, collected, and published is the archive. Often framed as a neutral entity, this exhibition explores the inherent biases prevalent in the archive. A contested site where power and authority continuously centralizes itself through the control of history. The show provides an opportunity to explore the role the arts play in this archival power struggle for authorship, ownership, and accountability. The artists in Fever Dream approach the archive through non-neutral lenses, recognizing the preservation and recording of history has never been neutral, while acting as archivists in their own right. Working across film, photography, installation, drawing, and painting, each artist's practice draws upon literary, familial, academic, aesthetic, and socio-political records to reclaim and generate narratives encompassing all people's history, not just one point of view. The works will be displayed to emulate the feeling of walking into someone's personal library, mimicking a variety of information laid out for all to explore.