How Shall I Live Now in the Unexpected Present: Gallery Hours
Sat, Apr 04
|nina Atwater
Join artist hannah rubin and curator K. Bradford for a private viewing and walkthrough of hannah's solo debut exhibition of photographs How Shall I Live Now in the Unexpected Present.
Time & Location
Apr 04, 2026, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
nina Atwater, 3170 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90039, USA
About the event
Join artist hannah rubin and curator K. Bradford for a private viewing and walkthrough of hannah's solo debut exhibition of photographs, How Shall I Live Now in the Unexpected Present.
Shot on 35 mm film, How Shall I Live Now in the Unexpected Present offer uncanny domestic scenes of two bodies in transition. In these family portraits, gender and intimacy are not treated as fixed states or completed transformations, but as things in motion, negotiated in dailyness. The images linger in bedrooms and bathrooms, in rest and in maintenance. Limbs mirror one another; a leg meets a leg. Human and animal forms fold together. Green surfaces, house plants, and domestic light frame and obscure the scenes. The images resist sharpness, preferring proximity over clarity.
rubin’s photographs open a field of attention to the soft and strange: how we share our lives with one another, how intensity and banality mingle in…