Opening Reception: Beyond Archive: Presented by The Incubation Series

What exists beyond the reach of documented history? Departing from state-sanctioned, institutionally maintained materials, Beyond Archive presents three artists who extend the boundary of archives through fabricated historical dioramas, cartography rooted in private
memories, and the naming and writing of ethnic, gendered bodies. Through photography, sculpture, performance, and video installation, Jewan Goo, Gayoung Lee, and Marta Rodriguez Maleck evoke questions on the ethics of alternative archives. Could
remembering, forgetting, and reinventing the past be a remedy? What echoes do they cast upon the future?

Beyond Archive features the work of UPenn MFA candidates and is co-organized by Lynette
Qiuyang Shen and Star Yixin Song. It is the twenty-third exhibition in the Incubation Series—a student-led initiative that fosters new ways of making, exhibiting, and seeing art.