{
  "id": 8950844,
  "title": "New Show at Pratt Manhattan Gallery Explores How Human Bodies Exist with Non-Human Objects",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/new-show-at-pratt-manhattan-gallery-explores-how-human-bodies-exist",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-21T15:30:58.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hyperallergic",
    "slug": "hyperallergic",
    "url": "https://hyperallergic.com/new-show-at-pratt-manhattan-gallery-explores-how-human-bodies-exist-with-non-human-objects/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Pratt Manhattan Gallery's new exhibition, Like everything alive that we try to hold forever, delves into the complex relationships between human beings and non-human objects. Featuring seven international artists, the show explores the intricate connections within these relationships, showcasing how the systematic collection, consumption, and contextualization of objects shape our understanding of self and others. The exhibition employs photography, sculpture, and video to address a range of issues related to being human, such as identity, likeness, self-authorship, and the impact of imposed knowledge systems on definitions of humanity.\n\nThe works in the exhibition draw parallels between various aspects, including the legacy of archaeology, colonialism, the potential of AI, digital technologies, and the blurred lines between self and other. Curators Elizabeth Diggon, Naomi Potter, and Shauna Thompson describe the exhibition as addressing our psychosocial relationships to materiality, drawing parallels between realities and presenting objects and avatars as channels that access the limits of human experience, challenge it, or suggest a transhuman future.\n\nLike everything alive that we try to hold forever was previously exhibited in 2023 at Esker Foundation in Calgary, Canada, and has been touring since then. It makes its debut in New York City at Pratt Manhattan Gallery on 14th Street, running from September 25 through December 19, 2026. A public reception is scheduled for Thursday, September 24, from 6-8pm. The gallery is located at 144 West 14th Street, New York, NY, and is free and open to the public. The exhibition is curated by Diggon, Potter, and Thompson, and organized by Esker Foundation and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI), with support from their Board of Trustees and International Forum members.",
  "summary": "The internationally traveling exhibition shows the complexities and interconnectedness of these relationships. On view September 25 - December 19, 2026.",
  "key_points": [
    "\"Like everything alive that we try to hold forever\" explores human-non-human object relationships",
    "Seven international artists featured in Pratt Manhattan Gallery exhibition",
    "Exhibition runs September 25 to December 19, 2026"
  ],
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}