Group Exhibition: Ctrl + Alt + Delete

Abstract

Three keys pressed in unison to log in, log out, interrupt, override, reset. This exhibition gathers recent work by third-year B.F.A. students who are doing the same to the world around them. Across painting, sculpture, installation, video, design, and printmaking, each artist presses down on systems that have gone unresponsive. Our pale blue dots, our blue screens of death, our hour-long loading bars have manifested as cultural glitches, political freezes, inherited assumptions, or personal loops that refuse to close. In the face of a dying system, how does one compel change?

What holds the show together isn’t a shared subject but a shared gesture: the refusal to let the screen stay frozen. These artists aim to interrupt on purpose, breaking the flow to ask what we’ve been scrolling past, what we’ve accepted as running fine in the background, and what might actually need to be force quit.

Exhibiting artists

All B.F.A. ’27

• Unayzah Afzal
• Shembele Bolese
• Sasha Dunst
• Junsik Eom
• Ami Maria Hernandez
• Kelly Hong
• Savannah Jean-Pharuns
• Ella Anjali Kirlew
• Hendrik Manuels
• Es Sadri
• Rania Amalia Shah
• Katelyn Yun