of sight, of mind is a site-specific installation featuring architectural constructions by Alejandro Acierto and three collaborators.

This project organizes new and ongoing works shaped by artists invested in making visible the unseen operations, architectures, and mechanics of US-based carceral systems.

Highlighting the impact prisons have on people, communities, and cities, particularly with the increase of policing and militarization, state surveillance, and data extraction, the works of this exhibition contend with contemporary expressions of capture that challenge the function of the broader criminal justice system.

While remaining cautious around the politics and effects of visibility – conditions integral to increased rates of criminalization historically – this installation instead insists on a refusal to ignore the specifics of state violence, to keep these occurrences in the present at the top of our consciousness. As exhausting as it is, we cannot afford to look away.