Join us for the opening of soft weapons: Keep Your Fucking Hands Off My Body, a 28-artist exhibition bringing together sculpture, performance, film, painting, and installation. In an era of escalating authoritarianism, the body is a site of innate freedom. Where laws surveil, erase, and punish, the body resists. Memory, desire, care, and resistance endure as acts of rebellion that cannot be legislated. Each artwork transforms tenderness and memory into forms that insist on the body’s irreducible freedom, claiming autonomy even when the cost is sometimes life itself. 

The night begins with Care Communion, a live performance by Autumn Breon, where participants are invited to share food, sound, and ritual as acts of care and renewal.

Artists:

Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, Autumn Breon, Jo Shane and Shiloh Blue, Wildcat Ebony Brown, Airco Caravan, Debra Cartwright, Lena Chen, Christen Clifford, Aaron Cobbett, Courtney Cone, Chris Cortez, Morgan Cousins, Ayanna Dozier, catherine fenton bernath (cfb), Pri the Honeydark, Abreale Hopkins, Aneesa Julmice, Darryl LaVare, Bo Lee, Aullar Mateo, Anna Ting Möller, Jasmine Murrell, Lydia Nobles, Viva Ruiz, Aliza Shvarts, Christl Stringer, Thank God for Abortion, Judith Vivell, Annu Yadav.

Curated by Cassandra Neyenesch and Lydia Nobles.

For press inquires and press kit please contact Lydia Nobles, [email protected]

RSVP now for an evening of performance, art, and gathering.