ACTIVATIONS
where morphing sensoria take the lead
:: Upcoming ::
March 28 - August 2
2026
FAIG AHMED :: Textiles of Consciousness
FAIG AHMED :: TEXTILES OF CONSCIOUSNESS is an exhibition and invitation to experience the elaborate sculptural textiles of Azerbaijiani artist, Faig Ahmed. Ahmed’s practice experiments with pixelated aesthetics to confound our cognitive and sensory expectations of craft-based textiles. TEXTILES OF CONSCIOUSNESS invites you to feel—not just to think about—how Faig blurs the boundaries between sensation and perception. The very idea of collective consciousness emerges anew through the textures and visual glitches, drips, and fluff found in Faig’s works.
Curated by the::sense::archive. In collaboration with the Princeton University Art Museum.
Member Preview Hours :: March 28 :: 10am - 12pm
Art@Bainbridge, 158 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ
Public Opening :: March 28 :: 12 - 5pm
Art@Bainbridge, 158 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ
Artist Talk :: March 31 :: 530 - 630pm
Grand Hall, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
An exhibition of contemporary art that invites us to feel with our own bodies what only great athletes know about how to use theirs.
To get close to a ::feel:: for the game, we pour over replays, relish slow-motion, reverse-motion. We linger on photographs, memorialize in posters, in logos, in statues. We aspire to hold something - even briefly - beyond what we understand. With a fan’s love and an athlete’s embodied dedication, this exhibit brings together artists reaching for a similar horizon.
Curated by the::sense::archive. In collaboration with the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College.
A ::FEEL:: FOR THE GAME
JANUARY - APRIL
TEXTILES
OF
CONSCIOUSNESS
March - August
with faig Ahmed
An exhibition of Faig Ahmed’s elaborate, sculptural textiles at Art@Bainbridge, part of the Princeton University Art Museum. The show opens March 28, 2026 to run through August 2, 2026.
Curated by the::sense::archive. In collaboration with the Princeton University Art Museum.
MAKING :: IT
FINDING :: IT
November
with Ann Johnson
As part of the Hurford Center’s Tuttle Artist-in-Residence Program at Haverford College, Ann Johnson led a series of participatory workshops based in her practice. Participants, inspired by her series BLING CATCHERS, created a series of works that were exhibited in the VCAM space following her residency.
VISCERA::POETICS
March
For Rajabi’s sense::archivist residency at Princeton University, participants composed “visual poems” from the visceral relations of their own memories re-embodied through materials Ziba prepared and practices she led us through.
with Ziba Rajabi
WET::DRY::STITCH
April
with Shannon Alonzo
WET::DRY::STITCH was a series of multi-sensory, participatory workshops exploring how hands think in acts of washing, working with charcoal, and stitching. The workshops were hosted at VCAM as part of the Haverford College Hurford Center’s Tuttle Artist-in-Residence Program.
October
RESONANCES
with Raúl Romero
Resonances was a series of multi-sensory, participatory workshops exploring sound as a material force. The workshops were hosted at VCAM as part of the Hurford Center’s Tuttle Artist-in-Residence Program at Haverford College.