Exhibition: Grids and Islands

On view May 17 – 18 + 24 – 25. Fea­tur­ing works by Kemil Bek­teši, Niki­ca Jurković, and Veroni­ka Romhány. Curat­ed by Res­i­den­cy Unlim­it­ed (RU) Cura­tor Data Chigh­o­lashvili.

Grids are orga­niz­ing sys­tems that sup­port effi­cient move­ment but also cre­ate con­fine­ments with­in their uni­fy­ing orders. From above, grids appear as per­fect­ly shaped islands, but shift as one’s gaze descends and grad­u­al­ly gets lost in them. When think­ing of an urban grid sys­tem, often­times, the first exam­ple that comes up is NYC, par­tic­u­lar­ly Man­hat­tan, one of the busiest and diverse islands.

Grids and Islands takes place on Gov­er­nors Island – a small­er island in a city built on many islands – and explores orga­niz­ing net­works from dif­fer­ent per­spec­tives. Fea­tured works ques­tion grids as struc­tures of per­fec­tion, data man­age­ment and socio-cul­tur­al con­nec­tions, seek­ing the unseen lay­ers and links with­in the inter­con­nect­ed blocks and islands they create.

Res­i­den­cy Unlim­it­ed is one of the 2025 Gov­er­nors Island Arts Orga­ni­za­tions in Res­i­dence.