Not Here / Not Now
Not Here / Not Now, curated by Hail Holtzclaw and Samuel Hamish Horgan
October 9, 2025 - November 14th, 2025 at The Lamar Dodd School of Art
Artists Featured:
PAUL KNOPF
MORGAN LUGO
HANNA NEWMAN
LAUREN O'CONNOR-KORB
BENJAMIN STEELE
Not Here / Not Now is a group exhibition that explores speculative fiction as a method of inquiry beyond prediction and escape. Whether through science fiction, fantasy, alternate histories, or wild conjectures, speculative fiction claims imagination as a critical practice, accessing an underrated possibility of art.
The works gathered here—featuring emerging and mid-career artists, practices which span multiple media and expose exterior currents of creative discourse—destabilize inherited categories of truth, time and nature, offering instead ambiguous artifacts, impossible rituals, and visual systems that resist closure. The exhibition presents a chorus of speculative gestures: half-built systems, false memories, invented organisms, and imagined rituals.
The exhibition unfolds in a nonlinear layout, prioritizing drift, intuition, and proximity over chronology or didactic themes. The gallery becomes a speculative zone and a fragmented landscape of unresolved logic that asks viewers not just what they see, but how they know. Not Here / Not Now is at odds with the architecture of the everyday—against the monotonous waves of nostalgia and pastiche—prioritizing friction over clarity.
