9/17 @ 6pm: Shoshanna Weinberger: The Space Between Light

PES FUTURES is delighted to present the solo exhibition The Space Between Light by Shoshanna Weinberger, open to the public starting September 3rd, 2025, at their 128 Baxter Street location. A public reception for the artist will take place on September 17, from 6 - 8 pm.

Composed of mirrors, The Space Between Light is an experiential installation that explores a sequence of life-sized fractal reflective structures that unfold portals between the imagined and the yet-to-come. As a visual anthropologist, Weinberger catalogs cultural and architectural motifs from the Caribbean to build an environment that meditates on identity through memories.

Throughout the exhibition, Weinberger stacks sculptural forms reminiscent of building blocks commonly found in the Caribbean, often left partially constructed for future expansion, and reimagines them with mirrored and striped surfaces. Stripes, a recurring codifier in Weinberger’s studio practice, transform these utilitarian forms into reflective markers of possibility and cultural memory. For the first time in her professional experience, Weinberger incorporates film within the installation. Shot in Kingston, Jamaica, her birthplace, the film adds a layer of color, sound, and visual storytelling tied to memories of her childhood into the space. These scenes layer a personal narrative within the reflective environment, grounding the installation in a lived Caribbean landscape while inviting visitors to glimpse moments of memory, place, movement, and themselves within the larger layered refractions of the work.

Weinberger notes: “This installation is a mirror-scape where memory, light, and reflection collide, inviting visitors to glimpse fragments of Caribbean memory while stepping into futures yet to be imagined.”

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About PES FUTURES

Launched in 2024, PES FUTURES is a satellite initiative of Project for Empty Space located at 128 Baxter Street in Manhattan’s historic Chinatown. Expanding PES’s mission, PES FUTURES is both a physical and conceptual space dedicated to exploring intersecting and imagined possibilities.

As an incubator for unbridled imagination, it hosts special projects and exhibitions, creating space for artists—especially those historically marginalized—to claim and reclaim visibility, authorship, and presence.

PES’s broader work encompasses exhibitions, public art, residencies, subsidized studios, and professional development programs, all centered on uplifting narratives that have been erased or marginalized. PES FUTURES carries this ethos forward, supporting socially engaged artists while holding space for reflection and the creation of bold new futures.

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About Shoshanna Weinberger

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, and raised in Montclair, NJ, Shoshanna Weinberger received her MFA from Yale School of Art in 2003 and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995. She has lived and worked in Newark, NJ, since 2006, where her studio practice explores her Afro-Caribbean-American lineage through abstraction.

Weinberger’s work is held in permanent collections including: AC Kingston Collection, Jamaica; Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA; Davidson College, Davidson, NC; Girls Club Collection, Fort Lauderdale; LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA; Margulies Collection, Miami; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ; Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ; Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University-Newark; and Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE.

Shoshanna Weinberger was a 2018 Project for Empty Space Artist In Residence.

Host or Publisher Project For Empty Space