Ten artists collaborate in a reciprocal ekphrastic exhibition challenging and championing our collective and personal relationships to pleasure. The artists are anonymously paired, one visual and one literary, to create original work exploring what it means to make intentional, unflinching commitments to rest, joy, self-actualization, and freedom. The resulting work invites viewers and readers to consider individual and communal practices that embody and encourage radical pleasure--pleasure that disrupts the status quo, reclaims identity, and attempts to dismantle capitalism, racism, and the myriad of oppressive systems that seek to destroy us individually and collectively.

Presented by Spady Cultural Heritage Museum, April 1 - June 30, 2022