How Shall I Live Now in the Unexpected Present: Closing Reception

Join us for an early evening reception of poetry and performance featuring local LA artists exploring themes of transition, grief, love, and interspecies kinship. This event marks the closing of hannah rubin's photography exhibit, How Shall I Live Now in the Unexpected Present.

Shot on 35 mm film, rubin’s photographs offer uncanny domestic scenes of two bodies in transition. These family portraits capture unguarded moments of queer kinship: a beloved elderly dog as she transitions to the end of her life, two partners in ongoing states of transition, the daily weather of gender, love, intimacy, and making a home.

This project is a visual and somatic inquiry shaped by rubin’s practice as a queer artist, writer, and somatic practitioner. It asks: What does an ethics of care look like when shaped by queer time, nonhuman kinship, and deep attention to impermanence? How do we love through change, not despite it?…