my hands are monsters who believe in magic is a group exhibition exploring the artist’s power to radically reimagine the self through acts of unmaking and remaking. Featuring contemporary photography, video, and ceramics by ten artists from the Asian diaspora—Alex Anderson, Tommy Kha, Maggie Lee, Jarod Lew, Cathy C. Lu, Diane Severin Nguyen, Miraj Patel, Leonard Suryajaya, Guanyu Xu, and Amia Yokoyama—the exhibition embraces the liberatory potential of self-construction and reinvention.
The works on view confront the messy, endless, and often contradictory process of self-understanding in relation to history, material, and community. At times grotesque, always searching, they trace personal and collective attempts to shape identity from fragments.
The exhibition’s title is drawn from Ocean Vuong’s poem Dear Sara in Time Is a Mother and is organized by guest curator Kris Kuramitsu.
