The Persistence of a Present Past

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A ghost is an atemporal being. It’s less a phantom than a revenant whose arrivals and departures cannot be controlled. The group exhibition The Persistence of a Present Past draws its title from Derrida’s writings on hauntology—the notion that every ontology is based on the ghostly traces it excludes. Addressing topics that range from ecology, mythology, politics, consumer culture, and personal experience, the works in the exhibition “speak with ghosts” to propose dynamic modes of knowing, remembering, sensing, and being.