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Pass Carry Hold: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2023–24
showcases new works by sonia louise davis, Malcolm Peacock,
and Zoë Pulley, the latest cohort of the Studio Museum in
PASS CARRY HOLD: Harlem’s renowned residency program. This exhibition delves
STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM into themes of transition, inheritance, and preservation,
ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE exploring how knowledge and memory are passed down,
carried forward, and held close. Through sound, textile,
installation, and performance, the artists use materials as both
symbols and methods, highlighting everyday acts of care,
storytelling, and labor. davis’s vibrant, immersive textile works
and audio compositions embody improvisation and Black
feminist abstraction. Peacock’s striking installation, a redwood
tree trunk wrapped in thousands of synthetic braids, reflects
on endurance, nature, and Black mobility. Pulley transforms
personal artifacts into a familiar domestic space, exploring the
power of ordinary objects in preserving collective memory.
By embracing time itself as a material, these artists invite
audiences to slow down, bear witness, and reflect on the
histories embedded in their work. The exhibition, organized by
curators from the Studio Museum in Harlem and MoMA PS1,
continues the institutions’ ongoing collaboration and will be
Malcolm Peacock. Five of them were hers and she carved shelters with accompanied by a roundtable discussion with the artists.
windows into the backs of their skulls (detail). 2024. Foam, cement-mix
overlay, wood, synthetic hair, and six-channel audio (54 min., 38 sec., looped).
Installation view of Pass Carry Hold: Studio Museum Artists in Residence
2023–24, on view at MoMA PS1 from September 26, 2024 through February
10, 2025. Photo: Kris Graves Zoë Pulley. Installation view of Pass Carry Hold: Studio Museum Artists in
Residence 2023–24, on view at MoMA PS1 from September 26, 2024 through
February 10, 2025. Photo: Kris Graves

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