Still After: Threads of RemembranceExhibition
Still After: Threads of Remembrance
Artists
Phoebe Chen, Luyao Chang , Richard Gessert, Qingjun Huang, Linye Jiang, Anthony Park Kascak, Jungsoo Kim, Roopa Kosuri, Walter Hongyu Li, Magicfeifei, Le Hien Minh, Ruby Que, Jason Reblando, Stafford Hiroshi Smith, Daun Suh, Daniella Thach, Leslie Wilson, Siwei Simon Xu, Nayeon Yang, Jiaming You, Yung-wu, Amo (Mengying) Zeng, and Deyi (Evelyn) Zeng
Exhibition Dates: May 15 – July 12, 2026
Location: OH Art Foundation, 2nd Floor Gallery, Zhou B Art Center
1029 W. 35th St., Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Reception: Friday, May 15, 7:00PM
Still After brings together contemporary artists who understand memory not as a fixed archive, but as an embodied, recursive, and unfinished process. For diasporic and displaced subjects, remembrance is often a form of labor—painful and necessary, yet also rich with connection and discovery—moving through the body, materials, and acts of making.
Featuring 23 artists of diverse Asian and Asian diasporic backgrounds, Still After unfolds across painting, sculpture, video, photography, and installation. Together, the works trace interwoven familial and collective histories, where memory moves unevenly across generations, taking shape in fragments, gestures, and forms. They gather around a set of open questions:
How does a body absorb and negotiate the pressures of care, discipline, migration, and inheritance, where tenderness and violence, agency and constraint become difficult to separate?
What remains when a language is no longer fully one’s own—misremembered, untranslated, or held through pieces, songs, and gestures?
And what happens when histories surface through images, documents, and symbols that are partial, illegible, or shaped by other hands, when what is seen cannot fully account for what has been lived?
Moving between rupture and return, these practices do not resolve what they contain. Instead, they linger, reworking, reinhabiting, and gently insisting on what remains, what changes, and what continues to unfold.