The Racial Imaginary Institute is pleased to partner with David Kordansky Gallery on Listening for the Unsaid, an online group exhibition featuring works by artists including Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Anaïs Duplan, Jon Henry, Nate Lewis, Azikiwe Mohammed, Public Assistants, and Kiyan Williams. The show will open at DavidKordanskyGallery.com on October 21, 8:00 am Pacific Time, and will be on view through November 18, 2020. All proceeds will benefit the featured artists and The Racial Imaginary Institute. Listening for the Unsaid brings together artists, activists, and writers who partake in the impossibility of reconstructing an archive, while still trying to archive the impossible. In Saidiya Hartman’s 1998 essay Venus in Two Acts, she argues that writing counter-histories / counter-archives is inseparable from a history of the present or the "incomplete project of freedom." How can we, as Hartman asks, "revisit the scene of subjection without replicating the grammar of violence?" Taking Hartman's words, "listening for the unsaid," as a framework, The Racial Imaginary Institute offers a response to these times of acute precarity by presenting the work of Black artists, at various stages in their careers, whose works contribute to an ongoing conversation surrounding the multitude of Black life. The exhibition also becomes a way to engage with a strategy for imagining and archiving new and varied historical narratives. #AnaisDuplan @kiyanwilliams @ladydangfua @misterace12 @nloois @publicassistants @whoisdamaster @davidkordanskygallery