CARA’s fall 2026 exhibition, Gravity, My / Favorite Enemy, is Johanna Hedva’s first institutional exhibition in New York. Devoted to deviant forms of knowledge, Hedva’s practice moves between sculpture, installation, video, writing, and sound. Gravity, My / Favorite Enemy is the most ambitious presentation of their visual work, including pieces commissioned by CARA. Opening Saturday, September 19, the exhibition gathers time-based installation and video alongside newly produced sculptural wall paintings and a large-scale kinetic sculpture.
“I like working with gravity, deterioration, materiality that’s destroyed over time, ruins; I try to make the abyss feel visceral and intimate and close for my viewer,” writes Hedva. Time functions as a primary material in the exhibition–from a mouthblown glass vessel that slowly drains black goo until it is empty, to a new 20-foot robotic sculpture that spins and tangles ribbon. Works take shape through duration: leaking, sagging, knotting, and giving way. Together they compose an erotics of gravity, asking what beauty becomes when decay is not resisted but allowed to run its course.