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You Are Still Here is an exhibition of in-between states: presence and absence, exile and homecoming. Drawn from an aphorism that Mona Hatoum etched into the mirrored surface of her exhibited artwork, the show’s title conveys tensions between visibility and erasure.

Much like the ring in Ernesto Neto’s sculpture that grips pantyhose stuffed full of lavender, You Are Still Here materializes moments of transition, reflecting how identity and experience are neither singular nor fixed. The sculptures, photographs, drawings and videos trace how movement across borders or within one’s inner landscape is an act of becoming in the world.

By bringing together works that evoke migration, memory, and the fragility of borders, the exhibition insists that movement—whether visible in passports or held in one’s bodily memory—is a form of presence. As artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres often liked to say: “The only thing permanent is change.”

Artists include Janine Antoni, Leonora Carrington, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mona Hatoum, Ana Mendieta, Ernesto Neto, and Gabriel Orozco.

You Are Still Here is curated by Rodrigo González Di Carlo, Olivia Ines Ragazzi, and Diya Shah.