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SPECIAL THANKS
Al Wong, husband and fellow artist, who provided the cinematography in Mending Body/Mending Mind
Edited by Elizabeth Wiet Designed by Bryce Wilner Typeset in Grotesque No. 3
Aya Karpin´ska, friend and fellow artist, who wrote the poem and created the sound composition for Mending Body/Mending Mind
Printed and bound by Graphic Arts Studio, Barrington, IL
Soad Kader, friend and fellow artist, who assisted with the combing and braiding segments in Mending Body/Mending Mind
All images © Holly Wong, 2025 transform/death © Aya Karpin´ska, 2025 “Holly Wong’s Reparative Hauntology” © Elizabeth Wiet, 2025 “Following the Lines” © Mira Dayal, 2025
Gallery Partners: A.I.R. Gallery, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, ELLIO Fine Art, SLATE Contemporary, Walker Fine Art
Non-Profit Partners: Carving Studio & Sculpture Center, Curfman Gallery at Colorado State University, Evanston Art Center, Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Ogden Contemporary Arts, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Visual Art Exchange (VAE)
CONTRIBUTORS
Elizabeth Wiet is a writer, editor, and curator based in New York. She is currently Deputy Editor at Topical Cream and Contributing Editor at Bidoun , and served as Director of Exhibitions & Fellowship at A.I.R. Gallery from 2022–2025. Her writing has appeared in frieze , The Brooklyn Rail , Elephant , Momus , The Quietus , IMPULSE , and other publications. She holds a Ph.D in English from Yale University and is in the process of completing a book manuscript, tentatively titled Maximalism: An Art of the Minor , and with Bidoun, is editing the first monograph on Lebanese-Egyptian artist Nicolas Moufarrege. Aya Karpin´ska expresses poetry through a variety of forms—video, sound, and print—that consciously engage with the affordances of each medium. Central to her work is the role that interfaces play in shaping our relationship with technology. She received a Fellowship for Electronic Writing from Brown University and a Master of Professional Studies, Interactive Telecommunications Program from New York University. Mira Dayal is an artist, writer, and editor based in Brooklyn, NY. She co-edited Track changes: a handbook for art criticism (Paper Monument, 2023) and co-publishes the collaborative artist book series prompt: . Dayal has held solo exhibitions at venues including Fuller Rosen Gallery, Philadelphia; Princeton University, NJ; Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York; Gymnasium, Brooklyn; Lubov, New York; and NARS Foundation, Brooklyn; as well as two-person exhibitions at Kunstverein Dresden, Germany, and Abrons Art Center, New York. She has participated in group exhibitions at the Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Feral File; Barnard College, New York; Miriam, Brooklyn; lower_cavity, Holyoke, MA; Parent Company, Brooklyn; Apparatus Projects, Chicago; Artspace New Haven, CT; OCHI, Los Angeles; Hesse Flatow, New York; NURTUREart, Brooklyn; and other spaces. She teaches at Barnard College and the School of Visual Arts in New York.
My alma mater, San Francisco Art Institute, which was a fertile ground for early exploration and experimentation
Ed Love, my teacher and mentor at the New World School for the Arts, who started me on my journey
The California Arts Council, for their generous fellowship support
Listen to Aya Karpin´ska’s transform/death as a sound composition, created for Mending Body/Mending Mind
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