AFTER THE RAIN

Curated by Benjamin Hsu and Paloma Alejandra in collaboration with BASTA

All Street Gallery, Chinatown, New York, USA, 2025

After The Rain traces the delayed collision between who we were and who we are now. It dwells in the space between the moment something happened and the moment we’re finally able to understand it. This space is a stretch of emotional distance marked by silence, embarrassment, longing, or regret. In that gap, unspoken feelings don’t disappear. They shift form. They linger asking to be seen, remembered, made legible.

Drawing inspiration from Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, this show considers how even the most private feelings press outward: into letters never sent, photographs tucked away, voicemails unsaved. Vuong writes with the understanding that the deepest intimacies often go unspoken, but still demand to be expressed somewhere.

“Dear Ma, I am writing to reach you—even if each word I put down is one word further from where you are.”

This exhibition answers that demand with a collection of works that reflect, refract, and reimagine the archive of unsaid things.

Exhibiting Artists: Matías Alvial, William Bigby, Iris Erwin, Jeffrey Jin, Elinor Kry, Nadine Zhan