Flooding the delicate membrane

Join us Friday, January 16 at 7 pm for Flooding the delicate membrane, an evening of readings by Zoe Brezsny, Jungmin Cho, Rachel James, and Lucy Ives, introduced by Mimosa Echard.

Organized on the occasion of Mimosa Echard’s exhibition Facial, the readings move across scales of intimacy and alienation, from reflections on feminine plasticity to the syntax of mystic dissonance.

Taking place within the exhibition space, the readings form a dialogue with the chemical and symbolic transformations that mark the artist’s work, summoning language to chart the entropic circulation of information and matter that pulse within it.

Drawing from past and new work of poetry and prose, the readers consider motifs of ambient paranoia, the promise of self-care and the seduction of surfaces, teasing out the invisible structures that underwrite our attachments to objects and to one another.

This program has received additional support from Étant donnés, the visual arts program of Villa Albertine, the French Institute for Culture and Education in the United States, and Albertine Foundation.

About the Participants

Zoe Brezsny is the author of the chapbooks neuron waterfall (Heinzfeller, 2023), brume d'amour (Wonder Press, 2024), and Ecstasy (Topos Press, 2021), an audio cassette of poems. She records a weekly guided meditation for WFMU 91.1 FM radio. Bug Mobile (Façadomy, 2026), a collaborative book with the artist Henry Gunderson, is coming out this spring. 

Jungmin Cho, based in Seoul and New York, is the founder and director of WHITE NOISE—an art space and platform in Seoul dedicated to fostering artistic experimentation and building global art communities since its establishment in 2018. Also, as an independent curator, writer, and art advisor, she tries to pose accessible yet critical questions to the world through art. Her current writing explores Korean modernity and its ongoing transformation of emotional and material residues, focusing on how these elements are symbolized and commodified in art and pop culture from a microscopic lens.

Mimosa Echard has exhibited her work in various internationally renowned institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Lafayette Anticipations—Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Collection Lambert, Avignon; Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris; Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund; Platform-L Contemporary Art Center, Seoul; Cell Project Space, London.

Lucy Ives is a novelist and critic. Her most recent books, both from Graywolf Press, are Life Is Everywhere: A Novel and An Image of My Name Enters America: Essays, winner of the 2024 Vermont Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, and Vogue, among other publications. A recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, she has taught at Brown, Cornell, and New York Universities. In spring 2026, siglio press will release Ives’s three six five: prompts, acts, divinations, a year-long daybook of philosophical exercises for writing and other forms of creative practice.

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