Passing Through, Holding On brings together five emerging Black women artists whose multidisciplinary practices explore movement, memory, and connection. Through text-based imagery, diptychs, intuitive assemblage, and shifting landscapes, each artist reflects on how fleeting encounters and everyday gestures accumulate into cultural memory.

Moments unfold quietly: strangers meeting in passing, scenes glimpsed from a moving vehicle, archival images recontextualized through collage, gestures of care expanded until they become monumental. The works attend to what might otherwise go unnoticed, inviting viewers to slow down and consider the weight carried within seemingly small acts.

While movement shapes much of the visual language on view – across places, histories, and lived experience – continuity remains central. Ritual and embodied repetition become ways of sustaining identity while navigating change. The exhibition embraces the in-between: a glance that lasts a moment longer, fragments assembled before their meaning settles, the shaping of hair as both gesture and inheritance. In these spaces of passage, something endures. What moves through us is never entirely lost, but carried forward and continually reshaped.