Curated by Margarita Demina and Nadia Hejailan SETAREH presents Yesterday, a group exhibition of works by Aziza, Erin Mommsen, Jordan Rubio, Julien Heintz, Maia Twombly, Nick Jensen, Nicholas Aliberti, Sage Schachter, and Zachary Merle.
The exhibition’s title names something immediately familiar yet fundamentally inaccessible: a moment close enough to remember, but already beyond reach. The works in this exhibition inhabit the distance between experience and recollection, tracing what survives in the space between them. Across nine practices, personal histories are salvaged through deep engagement with material. Sage Schachter’s canvases carry environmental impressions drawn from his New York surroundings; Nicholas Aliberti treats discarded metals to processes of transformation; and Zachary Merle works from family archives to recover memories obscured by his epilepsy. Remnants of the past are gathered, juxtaposed and overlaid, echoing the fragmented structure that forms memory. Even the human form cannot act as an immutable vessel for history. Figures surface from vivid dreamscapes only to dissolve before they can be fully recognised.