203 / H The Collector
An exhibition of the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program
Organized by Oorja Garg and Ridwana Rahman
May 23–29, 2026
Tues–Sat, 12–6 pm

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 23rd, 6–9 pm [RSVP]

203 / H The Collector is a group exhibition Organized by Oorja Garg and Ridwana Rahman after a year of collectively reading Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project with the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program. The exhibition emerges from questions of collecting, commodities, memory, and the strange afterlives of objects.

Written between 1927 and 1940, The Arcades Project remained unfinished at Benjamin’s death and was published posthumously, assembled from fragments, citations, observations, and reflections. Less a completed book than an unfinished archive, it unsettles linear forms of reading and history. Benjamin returns often to the figure of the collector: one who withdraws objects from circulation and reorders them according to intimate systems of meaning. In this gesture, things loosen from economic function and enter narrative life. The exhibition gathers around these conditions, bringing together objects collected, recollected, hoarded, journaled, found, and displaced, suspended between memory, ruin, and possibility.

Participants of the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program include:

Minnie Black
Yves Cao
Soleil Corazón-Libre
Spencer Everett
Christian Amaya Garcia
Oorja Garg
Joseph Issac Cohen
Kaela Mei-Chee Chambers
Mary-Elisabeth Moore
Pegah Pasalar
Sarah Passino
Ridwana Rahman
Rujuta Rao
Lauren Rooney
Miranda Samuels
Mariia Usova
Trevor Warren

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