An Incomplete Haunting: The Past Is Not Past

Saturday, February 7, 2026
601Artspace, 88 Eldridge Street
4:30 - 6:00pm

Join us tomorrow for an afternoon of conversation within our current exhibition, An Incomplete Haunting, curated by Rachel Gugelberger. Artists Yevgeniy Fiks, Kris Grey, Miguel Luciano, and Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere will offer deeper insight into their respective practices and their works on view, while reflecting on and responding to our current socio-political climate.

Yevgeniy Fiks will read from and discuss “Can a Homosexual Be a Member of the Communist Party?,” a 1934 letter from British journalist and Communist Harry Whyte to Joseph Stalin, protesting the Soviet Union’s re-criminalization of male homosexuality.

Kris Grey's sculpture Capital T — made with materials salvaged from the Stonewall National Monument Visitors Center during its renovation — uncovers, resurrects, and transforms historical materials into meaning. Grey will share archival images alongside a poem, inviting us to playfully traverse time and bringing queer histories into the present.

Miguel Luciano will speak about his works on view, which span Puerto Rico’s Spanish colonial past to the social justice activist Young Lords of the 1960s-70s and beyond, reflecting on the importance of engaging with the past to better understand the present.

Nevarez & Tevere will share the behind-the-scenes process and conceptual framework of their project, Layers of the City, which includes songwriting, collaboration, and spatial occupation and addresses the economic forces that contribute to the loss of community diversity.