CODE GIRL ART EXHIBITION

May 30 to July 26

This exhibition positions GIRL as structure, as manifesto, and as blueprint. It moves beyond representation, unfolding as a system that shapes how work comes into being, finds its place, and is experienced.

THE VILLAGE
A workers’ neighbourhood becomes a living archive as Virginia Cassano photographs the people, streets, and memories that continue to shape Villaggio Piaggio.

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CODE GIRL

May 30 to July 26 2026

Opening Party May 30 @ 5pm

This exhibition positions GIRL as structure, as manifesto, and as blueprint. It moves beyond representation, unfolding as a system that shapes how work comes into being, finds its place, and is experienced.

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presents THE VILLAGE by Virginia Cassano @virgi__cassano
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“Being a ‘Piaggista’ meant sharing work shifts, shopping at the staff shops and spending leisure time together. I wanted to seek them out, to make them the protagonists of a story that belongs to them and has not yet been told through photography. A story that has also become my own.”
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Some neighborhoods are not simply lived in. They are inherited through stories, families, work, grief, habit, and the memories that continue to shape them. Virginia Cassano enters Villaggio Piaggio from a position of personal inheritance, as the daughter of a factory worker who died too soon. Through this intimate connection, she examines how labor and collective memory remain embedded in the life of a place. The project unfolds in Pontedera, the Tuscan town that adopted Virginia ten years ago. Within it sits Villaggio Piaggio, a neighbourhood built in 1934 for the workers of the Piaggio factory and still physically present yet suspended within its own history.
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presents TÜRKIYE: A secular republic in the shadow of the minaret (Vol I & II) by Rpnunyez @rpnunyez_photographer
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“Suddenly everything fell into place and the current project took shape as a book.”
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Rpnunyez is a photographer who approaches his subjects with honesty and integrity. What stays with us is not only the photographs themselves, but the values that make them possible. They encourage us to look closely, to think critically, and to recognise ourselves in the lives of others. He is guided by the conviction that a photograph should not extract or reduce, but allow another’s presence to be seen.

TÜRKIYE (Vol I & II) is not only a portrait of a country but also a reflection on how societies live with complexity, negotiating between past and present, belief and secularism, continuity and change. In these pages, Türkiye appears both singular in its particulars and universal in its questions, reminding us that the truths of a nation are inseparable from the lives of its people.
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presents MUTABLE MORPHOGENESIS by Emma Varga @emmavargaarchive
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“I’m interested in what happens when the boundaries between human, animal, and environment start to blur, because that makes the body feel less fixed and more relational.”
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Working at the intersection of photography, biology, and material experimentation, Emma Varga uses the photographic image to question how we understand the living world. Through microscopy, organic matter, light, and decomposition, she reveals connections between bodies, environments, and systems of knowledge that often remain unseen. Guided by scientific inquiry and the grotesque as both visual language and provocation, her work examines vulnerability, existence, and the unstable boundaries that separate human from non-human.
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presents THE ARCHITECTURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS by Chad Coombs @itschadcoombs
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“What feels permanent within the mind, is often the result of an ongoing process of construction.”
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Chad Coombs approaches the image as a constructed field, where identity, perception, and consciousness are not presented as stable conditions but examined as systems under pressure. Working across photography, collage, and painting, his practice resists the idea of the medium as a passive tool. Instead, process becomes central to meaning. Analog photography, hand-built imagery, direct mark-making, distortion, fragmentation, and recontextualization function as methods of inquiry, allowing the work to question how identity is shaped, interrupted, and read.

In The Architecture of Consciousness, Chad extends this investigation through a Polaroid-based body of work structured across four interconnected series: Dear Diary, Interior Architecture, Reconstruction, and Foundation.
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presents ARE THOSE WINDS by Ci Demi @ci_demi
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“The tradition will be erased, and we will have been mere helpless witnesses. Will what I’ve been trying to show help? ‘At least there will be documents,’ I keep telling myself.”
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Along Istanbul’s northern edge, Ci Demi photographs the city’s last water buffalo herders as they keep working, remembering, and staying put while the city closes in. His ongoing project Are Those Winds traces a landscape shaped by wetlands, animals, labour, and disappearance. First commissioned by Climavore x Jameel at RCA, the work has developed into an independent documentary story about Istanbul’s expansion and the communities it threatens. Through portraits of herders and buffaloes, Demi records affection, dependency, and resistance in a place where time is running out and documentation becomes both insufficient and necessary.
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presents WHERE WE BELONG by Marlon Ramos @marlon_light_sensitive
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“On the streets of Newburgh, you cannot help but notice how resilient we are as humans. It is a place with many layers, but somehow it wins over those who want to be part of the community.”
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Community storytelling lies at the heart of The Pictorial List’s mission, and Marlon Ramos’ photographs reflects the spirit of the place we now call home.

Marlon’s photographs move through the neighborhoods, streets, and everyday moments of his community in Newburgh, New York, winding along the shores of the Hudson Valley. With patience and attentiveness, Marlon reveals how identity and belonging are shaped through the spaces we return to again and again. By observing the subtle interactions between people, environment, and time, his work invites viewers to look more closely at the communities around them and the ways we each carve out a sense of home.
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presents COLORS OF HÜZÜN by Pedro Vidal @_pedro_vidal
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“The colors and forms reproduced in the images are like verbs or adjectives in a poem.”
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Pedro Vidal observes Istanbul through fragments of everyday life, where gestures and color quietly unfold. His images resist explanation, offering instead a sense of shared melancholy that lingers within the city’s atmosphere. Drawing on the idea of hüzün, the work moves beyond individual emotion, tracing a collective condition shaped by history and presence. There is no single defining image here, no final view to hold onto. Instead, the city reveals itself slowly, in moments that remain open and unresolved. Through this, Pedro invites us to look without certainty, to stay within the act of seeing, and to accept what cannot be fully understood.
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presents OUT OF PLAY by Marco Lugli @luglimarco77
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“The series moves through abandoned rooms where time has settled like dust, thick and unmoving, yet illuminated by thin, deliberate lines of light.”
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Taken together, Marco Lugli’s photographs and text establish a framework in which absence is understood through material continuity rather than loss. His work shifts attention from what is no longer present to how meaning is held within spatial relations, proposing a way of reading interiors grounded in observation rather than narrative reconstruction. What emerges is not closure, but an ongoing condition that asks the viewer to engage with what persists and to recognize the capacity of space to hold and carry experience beyond its original use.
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presents REIMAGINING TALIESIN by Amy Newton-McConnel @anmcconnelphotography
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“Through abstraction and fragmentation, the series reflects how design shapes the way we see, inhabit, and return to space — again and again.”
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In Amy Newton McConnel’s photographs, Taliesin West moves beyond structure into a field shaped by light, movement, and perception. Geometry softens, shadows shift, and architecture unfolds through time rather than remaining fixed. Her images do not document the site as a monument but engage it as a living system, where space is experienced through the body and changing light. Through abstraction and attention to form, the work reframes how we encounter architecture, inviting a slower, more attentive way of seeing that reveals new meanings within familiar structures.
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IN AN INSTANT OPENING PARTY

Pictorial Foundation
105 Ann Street
Newburgh, New York

Saturday April 25, 5-10

IN AN INSTANT is a community exhibition of instant film, bringing together a collection of photographs submitted by creators, each bringing their own way of seeing. Each image captures a moment as it happened, developed and held in real time. Sensitive to light, temperature, and touch, instant film introduces chance into the image-making process.

Come for the flash. Stay for the memory.

SYLVIA MUELLER
LYNNE BREITFELLER
GREGORY WIETING
IZZIE KEARNS
EILEEN MACAVERY
MIKE CHUNEY
SOLI PIERCE
WILLA VRACHOPOULOS
HANNAH NOLEN
KIMBER DEVANEY
KATHLEEN MCGUCKIN
ANNA WEST
J. RYAN ULSH
DAMIEN HUGHES
JARED TENNANT

presents WHERE THE MUSIC BEGINS by Jeevan Akash Jayavarthanan @jeev.jaypg
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“My journey into this world began with a simple curiosity about the origins of sound. I found myself in the workshops of artisans like Chinnappa, men who have spent over three decades listening to the “voice” of wood. To them, a Veena is not manufactured; it is birthed from the heart of a jackfruit tree.”
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Through his photographs, Jeevan Akash Jayavarthanan reminds us that the stories of culture and craft are often found far from the stage where their final expression is heard. Sound begins as silence. It lives first in wood, in careful measurement, and in the steady rhythm of tools against grain. Through attentive observation, Jeevan allows us to witness the moment before music begins, when the instrument still waits for its voice. The textures of labor, the concentration of the artisan, and the quiet presence of tradition come together in images that honor both the process and the people who sustain it.
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presents LAND, LABOR, AND THE GOLDEN FIBER by Rajesh Dhar @rdp5.6
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“Jute is a 100% recyclable natural material. Transitioning to alternative sustainable materials can help mitigate the carbon intensity associated with plastic production and its impact on climate change.”
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In the jute fields of West Bengal, Rajesh Dhar documents a material that has supported communities for generations. His photographs show how land and work are connected, and how this “golden fiber” continues to play a role in more sustainable ways of living. By photographing within these environments, he captures how traditions continue in the present through everyday labor.
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presents WITH GRATITUDE AND DEVOTION by Rafael Ayala Páez @rafaelayalapaez0
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“I have sought to document the poetry of the procession. The Christ of Health reminds us that hope and love live in small gestures, and not in the grandiosity of the world.”
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Rafael Ayala Páez photographs with respect and closeness. Through writing and image, he offers a portrait of belief carried through care and continuity, inviting us to witness a community moving together in devotion. He does not approach faith as something to be explained or translated, but as something lived.
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presents SILVER AND BREATH by Eva Christina Nielsen @eva_christina_nielsen
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“I wait for the moment when the subject disconnects from me and my presence and wanders off in their thoughts.”
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Within this fragile space between looking and being seen, Eva Christina Nielsen has developed a practice that is both restrained and deeply attentive. Her portraits unfold gradually, asking something rare of the viewer. Patience, presence, and a willingness to truly see. Within her photographs tonal range becomes emotional language. Deep blacks carry gravity. Soft silvers hold vulnerability. Light moves across skin with a tactile quality that feels almost physical. Silver carries the image. Breath gives it life.
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presents GUIDED BY A WHISPER: in conversation with Isolda Fabregat Sanz @isolda_photography
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“I resist immediacy, I feel like the world is spinning… So, I rebel, I want to move slow.”
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At a time when photographs are expected to perform instantly, Isolda Fabregat Sanz’s work insists on patience. Her images do not present conclusions. They remain open, attentive to the conditions of their making and their encounter. Working across portraiture, fashion, and documentary practice, Isolda refuses the hierarchies that separate these forms. Instead, she treats them as shared territories in which questions of authorship and representation remain unresolved. Her professional experience in art history informs both how images are created and how they are understood.
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