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I am so proud of my two friends Enam Gbewonyo@enamgd and Alexa Burrell @fogapocalypse! They have completed their MFA degrees at Stanford University and recently presented their spectacular thesis projectsat the SECOND HOLE SECOND WAVE: 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition which runs through June 4 at the Stanford Art Gallery. Come back to my Instagram soon as I plan to do a comprehensive reel on the whole show! For now, enjoy these happy image of opening night with Enam and Alexa. Their works are absolutely off-the-charts gorgeous. In the first image I am with Alexa, Enam andexhibition curator Jonathan Calm. @jonathancalm is a significant visual artist, curator and Stanford professor!

Enam Gbewonyo is a British-Ghanaian textile and performance artist and curator whose work explores identity, particularly Black womanhood, and the healing power of craft. Through performance, she creates spaces for reflection and healing while confronting the lasting impact of racism, sexism, and colonial legacies. She is a recipient of the 2022 Henry Moore Foundation @henrymoorefdn_grants Artist Award and winner of the 2022 Dentons Art Prize. Her residencies and fellowships include Black Rock Senegal @blackrocksenegal , the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts @bemiscenter , and Fondation H Madagascar.Enam is representedby @art_tafeta in London.

Alexa Burrell is a multidisciplinary artist and composer based in the San Francisco Bay Area whose immersive video, sound, and mixed-media installations center Black queer feminist experience, environmental change, and speculative world-building. Working across video, sound, sculpture, photography, animation, and performance, her practice is informed by Afro-futurist and hauntological aesthetics. Performing musically as LEXAGON, she creates experimental soundscapes using field recordings, handmade instruments, clarinet, and voice to explore memory, ancestral trauma, and intergenerational healing. Burrell has exhibited and performed widely across the Bay Area and is the recipient of the 2018 Soundwave Festival Buzz Award and the Alternative Exposure Grant.

@stanford @stanfordartpractice @stanfordaah @idastanford

I am so proud of my two friends Enam Gbewonyo@enamgd and Alexa Burrell @fogapocalypse! They have completed their MFA degrees at Stanford University and recently presented their spectacular thesis projectsat the SECOND HOLE SECOND WAVE: 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition which runs through June 4 at the Stanford Art Gallery. Come back to my Instagram soon as I plan to do a comprehensive reel on the whole show! For now, enjoy these happy image of opening night with Enam and Alexa. Their works are absolutely off-the-charts gorgeous. In the first image I am with Alexa, Enam andexhibition curator Jonathan Calm. @jonathancalm is a significant visual artist, curator and Stanford professor!

Enam Gbewonyo is a British-Ghanaian textile and performance artist and curator whose work explores identity, particularly Black womanhood, and the healing power of craft. Through performance, she creates spaces for reflection and healing while confronting the lasting impact of racism, sexism, and colonial legacies. She is a recipient of the 2022 Henry Moore Foundation @henrymoorefdn_grants Artist Award and winner of the 2022 Dentons Art Prize. Her residencies and fellowships include Black Rock Senegal @blackrocksenegal , the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts @bemiscenter , and Fondation H Madagascar.Enam is representedby @art_tafeta in London.

Alexa Burrell is a multidisciplinary artist and composer based in the San Francisco Bay Area whose immersive video, sound, and mixed-media installations center Black queer feminist experience, environmental change, and speculative world-building. Working across video, sound, sculpture, photography, animation, and performance, her practice is informed by Afro-futurist and hauntological aesthetics. Performing musically as LEXAGON, she creates experimental soundscapes using field recordings, handmade instruments, clarinet, and voice to explore memory, ancestral trauma, and intergenerational healing. Burrell has exhibited and performed widely across the Bay Area and is the recipient of the 2018 Soundwave Festival Buzz Award and the Alternative Exposure Grant.

@stanford @stanfordartpractice @stanfordaah @idastanford

I am so proud of my two friends Enam Gbewonyo@enamgd and Alexa Burrell @fogapocalypse! They have completed their MFA degrees at Stanford University and recently presented their spectacular thesis projectsat the SECOND HOLE SECOND WAVE: 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition which runs through June 4 at the Stanford Art Gallery. Come back to my Instagram soon as I plan to do a comprehensive reel on the whole show! For now, enjoy these happy image of opening night with Enam and Alexa. Their works are absolutely off-the-charts gorgeous. In the first image I am with Alexa, Enam andexhibition curator Jonathan Calm. @jonathancalm is a significant visual artist, curator and Stanford professor!

Enam Gbewonyo is a British-Ghanaian textile and performance artist and curator whose work explores identity, particularly Black womanhood, and the healing power of craft. Through performance, she creates spaces for reflection and healing while confronting the lasting impact of racism, sexism, and colonial legacies. She is a recipient of the 2022 Henry Moore Foundation @henrymoorefdn_grants Artist Award and winner of the 2022 Dentons Art Prize. Her residencies and fellowships include Black Rock Senegal @blackrocksenegal , the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts @bemiscenter , and Fondation H Madagascar.Enam is representedby @art_tafeta in London.

Alexa Burrell is a multidisciplinary artist and composer based in the San Francisco Bay Area whose immersive video, sound, and mixed-media installations center Black queer feminist experience, environmental change, and speculative world-building. Working across video, sound, sculpture, photography, animation, and performance, her practice is informed by Afro-futurist and hauntological aesthetics. Performing musically as LEXAGON, she creates experimental soundscapes using field recordings, handmade instruments, clarinet, and voice to explore memory, ancestral trauma, and intergenerational healing. Burrell has exhibited and performed widely across the Bay Area and is the recipient of the 2018 Soundwave Festival Buzz Award and the Alternative Exposure Grant.

@stanford @stanfordartpractice @stanfordaah @idastanford

I am so proud of my two friends Enam Gbewonyo@enamgd and Alexa Burrell @fogapocalypse! They have completed their MFA degrees at Stanford University and recently presented their spectacular thesis projectsat the SECOND HOLE SECOND WAVE: 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition which runs through June 4 at the Stanford Art Gallery. Come back to my Instagram soon as I plan to do a comprehensive reel on the whole show! For now, enjoy these happy image of opening night with Enam and Alexa. Their works are absolutely off-the-charts gorgeous. In the first image I am with Alexa, Enam andexhibition curator Jonathan Calm. @jonathancalm is a significant visual artist, curator and Stanford professor!

Enam Gbewonyo is a British-Ghanaian textile and performance artist and curator whose work explores identity, particularly Black womanhood, and the healing power of craft. Through performance, she creates spaces for reflection and healing while confronting the lasting impact of racism, sexism, and colonial legacies. She is a recipient of the 2022 Henry Moore Foundation @henrymoorefdn_grants Artist Award and winner of the 2022 Dentons Art Prize. Her residencies and fellowships include Black Rock Senegal @blackrocksenegal , the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts @bemiscenter , and Fondation H Madagascar.Enam is representedby @art_tafeta in London.

Alexa Burrell is a multidisciplinary artist and composer based in the San Francisco Bay Area whose immersive video, sound, and mixed-media installations center Black queer feminist experience, environmental change, and speculative world-building. Working across video, sound, sculpture, photography, animation, and performance, her practice is informed by Afro-futurist and hauntological aesthetics. Performing musically as LEXAGON, she creates experimental soundscapes using field recordings, handmade instruments, clarinet, and voice to explore memory, ancestral trauma, and intergenerational healing. Burrell has exhibited and performed widely across the Bay Area and is the recipient of the 2018 Soundwave Festival Buzz Award and the Alternative Exposure Grant.

@stanford @stanfordartpractice @stanfordaah @idastanford

I am so proud of my two friends Enam Gbewonyo@enamgd and Alexa Burrell @fogapocalypse! They have completed their MFA degrees at Stanford University and recently presented their spectacular thesis projectsat the SECOND HOLE SECOND WAVE: 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition which runs through June 4 at the Stanford Art Gallery. Come back to my Instagram soon as I plan to do a comprehensive reel on the whole show! For now, enjoy these happy image of opening night with Enam and Alexa. Their works are absolutely off-the-charts gorgeous. In the first image I am with Alexa, Enam andexhibition curator Jonathan Calm. @jonathancalm is a significant visual artist, curator and Stanford professor!

Enam Gbewonyo is a British-Ghanaian textile and performance artist and curator whose work explores identity, particularly Black womanhood, and the healing power of craft. Through performance, she creates spaces for reflection and healing while confronting the lasting impact of racism, sexism, and colonial legacies. She is a recipient of the 2022 Henry Moore Foundation @henrymoorefdn_grants Artist Award and winner of the 2022 Dentons Art Prize. Her residencies and fellowships include Black Rock Senegal @blackrocksenegal , the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts @bemiscenter , and Fondation H Madagascar.Enam is representedby @art_tafeta in London.

Alexa Burrell is a multidisciplinary artist and composer based in the San Francisco Bay Area whose immersive video, sound, and mixed-media installations center Black queer feminist experience, environmental change, and speculative world-building. Working across video, sound, sculpture, photography, animation, and performance, her practice is informed by Afro-futurist and hauntological aesthetics. Performing musically as LEXAGON, she creates experimental soundscapes using field recordings, handmade instruments, clarinet, and voice to explore memory, ancestral trauma, and intergenerational healing. Burrell has exhibited and performed widely across the Bay Area and is the recipient of the 2018 Soundwave Festival Buzz Award and the Alternative Exposure Grant.

@stanford @stanfordartpractice @stanfordaah @idastanford

I am so proud of my two friends Enam Gbewonyo@enamgd and Alexa Burrell @fogapocalypse! They have completed their MFA degrees at Stanford University and recently presented their spectacular thesis projectsat the SECOND HOLE SECOND WAVE: 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition which runs through June 4 at the Stanford Art Gallery. Come back to my Instagram soon as I plan to do a comprehensive reel on the whole show! For now, enjoy these happy image of opening night with Enam and Alexa. Their works are absolutely off-the-charts gorgeous. In the first image I am with Alexa, Enam andexhibition curator Jonathan Calm. @jonathancalm is a significant visual artist, curator and Stanford professor!

Enam Gbewonyo is a British-Ghanaian textile and performance artist and curator whose work explores identity, particularly Black womanhood, and the healing power of craft. Through performance, she creates spaces for reflection and healing while confronting the lasting impact of racism, sexism, and colonial legacies. She is a recipient of the 2022 Henry Moore Foundation @henrymoorefdn_grants Artist Award and winner of the 2022 Dentons Art Prize. Her residencies and fellowships include Black Rock Senegal @blackrocksenegal , the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts @bemiscenter , and Fondation H Madagascar.Enam is representedby @art_tafeta in London.

Alexa Burrell is a multidisciplinary artist and composer based in the San Francisco Bay Area whose immersive video, sound, and mixed-media installations center Black queer feminist experience, environmental change, and speculative world-building. Working across video, sound, sculpture, photography, animation, and performance, her practice is informed by Afro-futurist and hauntological aesthetics. Performing musically as LEXAGON, she creates experimental soundscapes using field recordings, handmade instruments, clarinet, and voice to explore memory, ancestral trauma, and intergenerational healing. Burrell has exhibited and performed widely across the Bay Area and is the recipient of the 2018 Soundwave Festival Buzz Award and the Alternative Exposure Grant.

@stanford @stanfordartpractice @stanfordaah @idastanford

Cant believe my final thesis work @stanfordartpractice debuts tonight at our opening reception! 5-7 followed by an after party at the studios! Hope to see you there❤️

Come celebrate the season finale of the Stanford’s 2nd year MFA cohort. Opening reception this Thursday May 14 from 5-7 at the Stanford Art Gallery.419 Lasuen Mall
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-5pm
Free & open to the public

5 sexy singles will reveal their MFA thesis show: SECOND HOLE SECOND WAVE on May 14th 2026 5-7PM at thee Stanford Art Gallery. Get there early for the spread. Stay for SECONDS.

Two weeks left to visit "Dream Jungle" at @sfac_galleries! Located 3 blocks from the Civic Center BART station and @asianartmuseum, on the same block as @sfopera @sfsymphony @sfballet.

"Through installation, video, literature, and archival assemblage, the artists enact what curator @genericmatt calls 'tropical counter-ethnographies': practices that seize the tropes of scripting, scoring, costuming, drag, fabrication, fore- and backgrounding, character building, scene-setting, and tableau to unsettle colonial modes of capture."

🥭🌺🦜🌴🐍
Dream Jungle
@ San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Main Gallery
401 Van Ness, Ste. 126, San Francisco, CA

Through May 2, 2026
Free and open to the public
sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/dream-jungle

Featuring new commissions and key loans by @adesouza64 @astriasuparak @aaaaadriiiannnnn @fogapocalypse @ssyjuco #CSST @carlosvillaart @bancroftlibrary #JessicaHagedorn

#DreamJungle

Video courtesy of SFAC.

Alexa Burrell’s installation “Siren of the Tropics” (2026) is on view now as part of our current exhibition “Dream Jungle” at SFAC Main Gallery.

Alexa Burrell is a multidisciplinary artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area working across film, video, animation, sound, sculpture, and performance. Her practice is rooted in Afrosurrealist traditions and explores Black ecologies, hauntology, and ambient aesthetics. Through time-based media, she investigates the poetics of memory, myth, and intergenerational patterns of resilience—often weaving together archival fragments, ritual performance, and speculative narrative.

“Siren of the Tropics” is a multimedia installation drawing on jazz composition, swamp biomes, and early cinema, Burrell treats the gallery as an ecosystem rather than a stage. A handmade sound system composed of reclaimed instrument cases—some shaped like Venus flytraps and activated by projection. Water recordings gathered throughout the Bay Area swell, trickle, and recede, moving like a poem that skips and stutters across channels. Within these washes of sound and image, the tropics emerge as a resonant field shaped by improvisation and interdependence.

The work takes its title from the silent film Siren of the Tropics (1927), in which Josephine Baker rose to international fame as one of the first Black women to star in a major motion picture, performing and strategically destabilizing colonial fantasies of the “native” woman. Channeling Baker’s legacy, Burrell dons a banana skirt made of gavels, objects of both judgment and percussion, suggesting that power is pliable and open to misuse. The installation inverts the tropical garden as a site of control, foregrounding dark ecologies of Black feminist subversion, spirit jazz, and queer metamorphosis.

Now through May 2nd, come experience Burrel’s work Wednesday – Saturday, 12:00 – 5:00 p.m. at the SFAC Main Gallery!

401 Van Ness Ave.
Suite 126
San Francisco, CA 94102

Link in bio for more info

Alexa Burrell’s installation “Siren of the Tropics” (2026) is on view now as part of our current exhibition “Dream Jungle” at SFAC Main Gallery.

Alexa Burrell is a multidisciplinary artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area working across film, video, animation, sound, sculpture, and performance. Her practice is rooted in Afrosurrealist traditions and explores Black ecologies, hauntology, and ambient aesthetics. Through time-based media, she investigates the poetics of memory, myth, and intergenerational patterns of resilience—often weaving together archival fragments, ritual performance, and speculative narrative.

“Siren of the Tropics” is a multimedia installation drawing on jazz composition, swamp biomes, and early cinema, Burrell treats the gallery as an ecosystem rather than a stage. A handmade sound system composed of reclaimed instrument cases—some shaped like Venus flytraps and activated by projection. Water recordings gathered throughout the Bay Area swell, trickle, and recede, moving like a poem that skips and stutters across channels. Within these washes of sound and image, the tropics emerge as a resonant field shaped by improvisation and interdependence.

The work takes its title from the silent film Siren of the Tropics (1927), in which Josephine Baker rose to international fame as one of the first Black women to star in a major motion picture, performing and strategically destabilizing colonial fantasies of the “native” woman. Channeling Baker’s legacy, Burrell dons a banana skirt made of gavels, objects of both judgment and percussion, suggesting that power is pliable and open to misuse. The installation inverts the tropical garden as a site of control, foregrounding dark ecologies of Black feminist subversion, spirit jazz, and queer metamorphosis.

Now through May 2nd, come experience Burrel’s work Wednesday – Saturday, 12:00 – 5:00 p.m. at the SFAC Main Gallery!

401 Van Ness Ave.
Suite 126
San Francisco, CA 94102

Link in bio for more info

Alexa Burrell’s installation “Siren of the Tropics” (2026) is on view now as part of our current exhibition “Dream Jungle” at SFAC Main Gallery.

Alexa Burrell is a multidisciplinary artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area working across film, video, animation, sound, sculpture, and performance. Her practice is rooted in Afrosurrealist traditions and explores Black ecologies, hauntology, and ambient aesthetics. Through time-based media, she investigates the poetics of memory, myth, and intergenerational patterns of resilience—often weaving together archival fragments, ritual performance, and speculative narrative.

“Siren of the Tropics” is a multimedia installation drawing on jazz composition, swamp biomes, and early cinema, Burrell treats the gallery as an ecosystem rather than a stage. A handmade sound system composed of reclaimed instrument cases—some shaped like Venus flytraps and activated by projection. Water recordings gathered throughout the Bay Area swell, trickle, and recede, moving like a poem that skips and stutters across channels. Within these washes of sound and image, the tropics emerge as a resonant field shaped by improvisation and interdependence.

The work takes its title from the silent film Siren of the Tropics (1927), in which Josephine Baker rose to international fame as one of the first Black women to star in a major motion picture, performing and strategically destabilizing colonial fantasies of the “native” woman. Channeling Baker’s legacy, Burrell dons a banana skirt made of gavels, objects of both judgment and percussion, suggesting that power is pliable and open to misuse. The installation inverts the tropical garden as a site of control, foregrounding dark ecologies of Black feminist subversion, spirit jazz, and queer metamorphosis.

Now through May 2nd, come experience Burrel’s work Wednesday – Saturday, 12:00 – 5:00 p.m. at the SFAC Main Gallery!

401 Van Ness Ave.
Suite 126
San Francisco, CA 94102

Link in bio for more info

Alexa Burrell’s installation “Siren of the Tropics” (2026) is on view now as part of our current exhibition “Dream Jungle” at SFAC Main Gallery.

Alexa Burrell is a multidisciplinary artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area working across film, video, animation, sound, sculpture, and performance. Her practice is rooted in Afrosurrealist traditions and explores Black ecologies, hauntology, and ambient aesthetics. Through time-based media, she investigates the poetics of memory, myth, and intergenerational patterns of resilience—often weaving together archival fragments, ritual performance, and speculative narrative.

“Siren of the Tropics” is a multimedia installation drawing on jazz composition, swamp biomes, and early cinema, Burrell treats the gallery as an ecosystem rather than a stage. A handmade sound system composed of reclaimed instrument cases—some shaped like Venus flytraps and activated by projection. Water recordings gathered throughout the Bay Area swell, trickle, and recede, moving like a poem that skips and stutters across channels. Within these washes of sound and image, the tropics emerge as a resonant field shaped by improvisation and interdependence.

The work takes its title from the silent film Siren of the Tropics (1927), in which Josephine Baker rose to international fame as one of the first Black women to star in a major motion picture, performing and strategically destabilizing colonial fantasies of the “native” woman. Channeling Baker’s legacy, Burrell dons a banana skirt made of gavels, objects of both judgment and percussion, suggesting that power is pliable and open to misuse. The installation inverts the tropical garden as a site of control, foregrounding dark ecologies of Black feminist subversion, spirit jazz, and queer metamorphosis.

Now through May 2nd, come experience Burrel’s work Wednesday – Saturday, 12:00 – 5:00 p.m. at the SFAC Main Gallery!

401 Van Ness Ave.
Suite 126
San Francisco, CA 94102

Link in bio for more info

Alexa Burrell’s installation “Siren of the Tropics” (2026) is on view now as part of our current exhibition “Dream Jungle” at SFAC Main Gallery.

Alexa Burrell is a multidisciplinary artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area working across film, video, animation, sound, sculpture, and performance. Her practice is rooted in Afrosurrealist traditions and explores Black ecologies, hauntology, and ambient aesthetics. Through time-based media, she investigates the poetics of memory, myth, and intergenerational patterns of resilience—often weaving together archival fragments, ritual performance, and speculative narrative.

“Siren of the Tropics” is a multimedia installation drawing on jazz composition, swamp biomes, and early cinema, Burrell treats the gallery as an ecosystem rather than a stage. A handmade sound system composed of reclaimed instrument cases—some shaped like Venus flytraps and activated by projection. Water recordings gathered throughout the Bay Area swell, trickle, and recede, moving like a poem that skips and stutters across channels. Within these washes of sound and image, the tropics emerge as a resonant field shaped by improvisation and interdependence.

The work takes its title from the silent film Siren of the Tropics (1927), in which Josephine Baker rose to international fame as one of the first Black women to star in a major motion picture, performing and strategically destabilizing colonial fantasies of the “native” woman. Channeling Baker’s legacy, Burrell dons a banana skirt made of gavels, objects of both judgment and percussion, suggesting that power is pliable and open to misuse. The installation inverts the tropical garden as a site of control, foregrounding dark ecologies of Black feminist subversion, spirit jazz, and queer metamorphosis.

Now through May 2nd, come experience Burrel’s work Wednesday – Saturday, 12:00 – 5:00 p.m. at the SFAC Main Gallery!

401 Van Ness Ave.
Suite 126
San Francisco, CA 94102

Link in bio for more info

Alexa Burrell’s installation “Siren of the Tropics” (2026) is on view now as part of our current exhibition “Dream Jungle” at SFAC Main Gallery.

Alexa Burrell is a multidisciplinary artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area working across film, video, animation, sound, sculpture, and performance. Her practice is rooted in Afrosurrealist traditions and explores Black ecologies, hauntology, and ambient aesthetics. Through time-based media, she investigates the poetics of memory, myth, and intergenerational patterns of resilience—often weaving together archival fragments, ritual performance, and speculative narrative.

“Siren of the Tropics” is a multimedia installation drawing on jazz composition, swamp biomes, and early cinema, Burrell treats the gallery as an ecosystem rather than a stage. A handmade sound system composed of reclaimed instrument cases—some shaped like Venus flytraps and activated by projection. Water recordings gathered throughout the Bay Area swell, trickle, and recede, moving like a poem that skips and stutters across channels. Within these washes of sound and image, the tropics emerge as a resonant field shaped by improvisation and interdependence.

The work takes its title from the silent film Siren of the Tropics (1927), in which Josephine Baker rose to international fame as one of the first Black women to star in a major motion picture, performing and strategically destabilizing colonial fantasies of the “native” woman. Channeling Baker’s legacy, Burrell dons a banana skirt made of gavels, objects of both judgment and percussion, suggesting that power is pliable and open to misuse. The installation inverts the tropical garden as a site of control, foregrounding dark ecologies of Black feminist subversion, spirit jazz, and queer metamorphosis.

Now through May 2nd, come experience Burrel’s work Wednesday – Saturday, 12:00 – 5:00 p.m. at the SFAC Main Gallery!

401 Van Ness Ave.
Suite 126
San Francisco, CA 94102

Link in bio for more info

“I want you to be in this exhibition and feel that this is a world we’re building with the explicit goal of making a home for each other.” – Matthew Villar Miranda

“Dream Jungle” will be on view through May 2, 2026 at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.

This group exhibition curated by Matthew Villar Miranda, features artists who wield elements of performance to explore counter-ethnographies of the tropics, subverting colonial notions of the other. Experience new commissions and key loans by Alexa Burrell a.k.a. LEXAGON, adrian clutario, Al-An deSouza, Astria Suparak, and Carlos Villa, along with archival holdings from The Center for the Study of the Study of the Tasaday and the Jessica Hagedorn Papers at The Bancroft Library.

To learn more, visit sfartscommission.org/dreamjungle

Opening reception of “Dream Jungle” at @sfac_galleries last Thursday.

Photo 2: Exhibition artists (left to right) Al-An deSouza, Alexa Burrell a.k.a. LEXAGON, adrian clutario, and Astria Suparak; curator @genericmatt; SFAC’s Director of Cultural Affairs @remingtonralph and Acting Director of Galleries @jackieetal; The Center for the Study of the Study of the Tasaday archivist @ssyjuco.

3: The other side of the last photo, from behind Matt during the opening remarks.

5: Detail from @aaaaadriiiannnnn’s work.

6: Detail from @fogapocalypse’s work.

7: An adorable kid watching my Tropical Cats video. (The bench located in front of the monitor was removed during the reception because of the size of the crowd.)

8: My banana sandbags, 📸 by @paoladelacalle.

10: One of @adesouza64’s new light boxes next to a detail of my work blown up huge at the gallery entrance.

🍊
“Dream Jungle” is on view through May 2, 2026
@ San Francisco Arts Commission, Main Gallery
sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/dream-jungle

Opening reception of “Dream Jungle” at @sfac_galleries last Thursday.

Photo 2: Exhibition artists (left to right) Al-An deSouza, Alexa Burrell a.k.a. LEXAGON, adrian clutario, and Astria Suparak; curator @genericmatt; SFAC’s Director of Cultural Affairs @remingtonralph and Acting Director of Galleries @jackieetal; The Center for the Study of the Study of the Tasaday archivist @ssyjuco.

3: The other side of the last photo, from behind Matt during the opening remarks.

5: Detail from @aaaaadriiiannnnn’s work.

6: Detail from @fogapocalypse’s work.

7: An adorable kid watching my Tropical Cats video. (The bench located in front of the monitor was removed during the reception because of the size of the crowd.)

8: My banana sandbags, 📸 by @paoladelacalle.

10: One of @adesouza64’s new light boxes next to a detail of my work blown up huge at the gallery entrance.

🍊
“Dream Jungle” is on view through May 2, 2026
@ San Francisco Arts Commission, Main Gallery
sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/dream-jungle

Opening reception of “Dream Jungle” at @sfac_galleries last Thursday.

Photo 2: Exhibition artists (left to right) Al-An deSouza, Alexa Burrell a.k.a. LEXAGON, adrian clutario, and Astria Suparak; curator @genericmatt; SFAC’s Director of Cultural Affairs @remingtonralph and Acting Director of Galleries @jackieetal; The Center for the Study of the Study of the Tasaday archivist @ssyjuco.

3: The other side of the last photo, from behind Matt during the opening remarks.

5: Detail from @aaaaadriiiannnnn’s work.

6: Detail from @fogapocalypse’s work.

7: An adorable kid watching my Tropical Cats video. (The bench located in front of the monitor was removed during the reception because of the size of the crowd.)

8: My banana sandbags, 📸 by @paoladelacalle.

10: One of @adesouza64’s new light boxes next to a detail of my work blown up huge at the gallery entrance.

🍊
“Dream Jungle” is on view through May 2, 2026
@ San Francisco Arts Commission, Main Gallery
sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/dream-jungle

Opening reception of “Dream Jungle” at @sfac_galleries last Thursday.

Photo 2: Exhibition artists (left to right) Al-An deSouza, Alexa Burrell a.k.a. LEXAGON, adrian clutario, and Astria Suparak; curator @genericmatt; SFAC’s Director of Cultural Affairs @remingtonralph and Acting Director of Galleries @jackieetal; The Center for the Study of the Study of the Tasaday archivist @ssyjuco.

3: The other side of the last photo, from behind Matt during the opening remarks.

5: Detail from @aaaaadriiiannnnn’s work.

6: Detail from @fogapocalypse’s work.

7: An adorable kid watching my Tropical Cats video. (The bench located in front of the monitor was removed during the reception because of the size of the crowd.)

8: My banana sandbags, 📸 by @paoladelacalle.

10: One of @adesouza64’s new light boxes next to a detail of my work blown up huge at the gallery entrance.

🍊
“Dream Jungle” is on view through May 2, 2026
@ San Francisco Arts Commission, Main Gallery
sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/dream-jungle

Opening reception of “Dream Jungle” at @sfac_galleries last Thursday.

Photo 2: Exhibition artists (left to right) Al-An deSouza, Alexa Burrell a.k.a. LEXAGON, adrian clutario, and Astria Suparak; curator @genericmatt; SFAC’s Director of Cultural Affairs @remingtonralph and Acting Director of Galleries @jackieetal; The Center for the Study of the Study of the Tasaday archivist @ssyjuco.

3: The other side of the last photo, from behind Matt during the opening remarks.

5: Detail from @aaaaadriiiannnnn’s work.

6: Detail from @fogapocalypse’s work.

7: An adorable kid watching my Tropical Cats video. (The bench located in front of the monitor was removed during the reception because of the size of the crowd.)

8: My banana sandbags, 📸 by @paoladelacalle.

10: One of @adesouza64’s new light boxes next to a detail of my work blown up huge at the gallery entrance.

🍊
“Dream Jungle” is on view through May 2, 2026
@ San Francisco Arts Commission, Main Gallery
sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/dream-jungle

Opening reception of “Dream Jungle” at @sfac_galleries last Thursday.

Photo 2: Exhibition artists (left to right) Al-An deSouza, Alexa Burrell a.k.a. LEXAGON, adrian clutario, and Astria Suparak; curator @genericmatt; SFAC’s Director of Cultural Affairs @remingtonralph and Acting Director of Galleries @jackieetal; The Center for the Study of the Study of the Tasaday archivist @ssyjuco.

3: The other side of the last photo, from behind Matt during the opening remarks.

5: Detail from @aaaaadriiiannnnn’s work.

6: Detail from @fogapocalypse’s work.

7: An adorable kid watching my Tropical Cats video. (The bench located in front of the monitor was removed during the reception because of the size of the crowd.)

8: My banana sandbags, 📸 by @paoladelacalle.

10: One of @adesouza64’s new light boxes next to a detail of my work blown up huge at the gallery entrance.

🍊
“Dream Jungle” is on view through May 2, 2026
@ San Francisco Arts Commission, Main Gallery
sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/dream-jungle

Opening reception of “Dream Jungle” at @sfac_galleries last Thursday.

Photo 2: Exhibition artists (left to right) Al-An deSouza, Alexa Burrell a.k.a. LEXAGON, adrian clutario, and Astria Suparak; curator @genericmatt; SFAC’s Director of Cultural Affairs @remingtonralph and Acting Director of Galleries @jackieetal; The Center for the Study of the Study of the Tasaday archivist @ssyjuco.

3: The other side of the last photo, from behind Matt during the opening remarks.

5: Detail from @aaaaadriiiannnnn’s work.

6: Detail from @fogapocalypse’s work.

7: An adorable kid watching my Tropical Cats video. (The bench located in front of the monitor was removed during the reception because of the size of the crowd.)

8: My banana sandbags, 📸 by @paoladelacalle.

10: One of @adesouza64’s new light boxes next to a detail of my work blown up huge at the gallery entrance.

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“Dream Jungle” is on view through May 2, 2026
@ San Francisco Arts Commission, Main Gallery
sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/dream-jungle

Opening reception of “Dream Jungle” at @sfac_galleries last Thursday.

Photo 2: Exhibition artists (left to right) Al-An deSouza, Alexa Burrell a.k.a. LEXAGON, adrian clutario, and Astria Suparak; curator @genericmatt; SFAC’s Director of Cultural Affairs @remingtonralph and Acting Director of Galleries @jackieetal; The Center for the Study of the Study of the Tasaday archivist @ssyjuco.

3: The other side of the last photo, from behind Matt during the opening remarks.

5: Detail from @aaaaadriiiannnnn’s work.

6: Detail from @fogapocalypse’s work.

7: An adorable kid watching my Tropical Cats video. (The bench located in front of the monitor was removed during the reception because of the size of the crowd.)

8: My banana sandbags, 📸 by @paoladelacalle.

10: One of @adesouza64’s new light boxes next to a detail of my work blown up huge at the gallery entrance.

🍊
“Dream Jungle” is on view through May 2, 2026
@ San Francisco Arts Commission, Main Gallery
sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/dream-jungle

Opening reception of “Dream Jungle” at @sfac_galleries last Thursday.

Photo 2: Exhibition artists (left to right) Al-An deSouza, Alexa Burrell a.k.a. LEXAGON, adrian clutario, and Astria Suparak; curator @genericmatt; SFAC’s Director of Cultural Affairs @remingtonralph and Acting Director of Galleries @jackieetal; The Center for the Study of the Study of the Tasaday archivist @ssyjuco.

3: The other side of the last photo, from behind Matt during the opening remarks.

5: Detail from @aaaaadriiiannnnn’s work.

6: Detail from @fogapocalypse’s work.

7: An adorable kid watching my Tropical Cats video. (The bench located in front of the monitor was removed during the reception because of the size of the crowd.)

8: My banana sandbags, 📸 by @paoladelacalle.

10: One of @adesouza64’s new light boxes next to a detail of my work blown up huge at the gallery entrance.

🍊
“Dream Jungle” is on view through May 2, 2026
@ San Francisco Arts Commission, Main Gallery
sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/dream-jungle

Opening reception of “Dream Jungle” at @sfac_galleries last Thursday.

Photo 2: Exhibition artists (left to right) Al-An deSouza, Alexa Burrell a.k.a. LEXAGON, adrian clutario, and Astria Suparak; curator @genericmatt; SFAC’s Director of Cultural Affairs @remingtonralph and Acting Director of Galleries @jackieetal; The Center for the Study of the Study of the Tasaday archivist @ssyjuco.

3: The other side of the last photo, from behind Matt during the opening remarks.

5: Detail from @aaaaadriiiannnnn’s work.

6: Detail from @fogapocalypse’s work.

7: An adorable kid watching my Tropical Cats video. (The bench located in front of the monitor was removed during the reception because of the size of the crowd.)

8: My banana sandbags, 📸 by @paoladelacalle.

10: One of @adesouza64’s new light boxes next to a detail of my work blown up huge at the gallery entrance.

🍊
“Dream Jungle” is on view through May 2, 2026
@ San Francisco Arts Commission, Main Gallery
sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/dream-jungle

Coming soon to SFAC Main Gallery, the Arts Commission is excited to present: “Dream Jungle,” an exhibition in dialogue with the novel by Jessica Hagedorn. 
 
“Dream Jungle” will be on view starting January 29 through May 2, 2026. Please join us for the opening reception on January 29, 2026, from 6:00 - 8:00 P.M.
 
This group exhibition curated by Matthew Villar Miranda, features artists who wield elements of performance to explore counter-ethnographies of the tropics, subverting colonial notions of the other. Experience new commissions and key loans by Alexa Burrell a.k.a. LEXAGON, adrian clutario, Al-An deSouza, Astria Suparak, and Carlos Villa, along with archival holdings from The Center for the Study of the Study of the Tasaday and the Jessica Hagedorn Papers at The Bancroft Library.

Taking its title from Jessica Hagedorn’s 2003 novel, the exhibition explores the tangle of truth and artifice behind imperial representation. In the novel, Hagedorn stages two performances in the Philippine jungle: the media spectacle of a fabricated “Stone Age” tribe and the filming of a Hollywood Vietnam War epic. Drawing from this framework, Dream Jungle foregrounds the tropics as a zone of psychic and historical projection—where the colonized land and body are scripted, cast, and costumed for imperial consumption.
 
To learn more, visit sfartscommission.org/dreamjungle

Dreamiest exhibition is opening January at @sfac_galleries!

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The San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery is excited to present Dream Jungle, an exhibition in dialogue with the novel by Jessica Hagedorn. This group exhibition features artists who wield elements of performance to explore counter-ethnographies of the tropics, subverting colonial notions of the other.

Taking its title from Hagedorn’s 2003 novel, the exhibition explores the tangle of truth and artifice behind imperial representation. In the novel, the author stages two performances in the Philippine jungle: the media spectacle of a fabricated “Stone Age” tribe and the filming of a Hollywood Vietnam War epic. Drawing from this framework, Dream Jungle foregrounds the tropics as a zone of psychic and historical projection—where the colonized land and body are scripted, cast, and costumed for imperial consumption.

Through installation, video, literature, and archival assemblage, the artists enact what curator Matthew Villar Miranda calls “tropical counter-ethnographies": practices that seize the tropes of scripting, scoring, costuming, drag, fabrication, fore- and backgrounding, character building, scene-setting, and tableau to unsettle colonial modes of capture.

Featuring new commissions and key loans by Alexa Burrell a.k.a. LEXAGON, adrian clutario, Al-An deSouza, Astria Suparak, and Carlos Villa, along with archival holdings from The Center for the Study of the Study of the Tasaday and the Jessica Hagedorn Papers at The Bancroft Library.

🌺
Dream Jungle

@ San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Main Gallery
401 Van Ness, Ste. 126, San Francisco, CA

January 29 – May 2, 2026
Free and open to the public

Opening Reception:
Thurs., Jan. 29th, 6-8 pm (Remarks at 6:30pm)
sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/dream-jungle

@adesouza64 @astriasuparak @aaaaadriiiannnnn @fogapocalypse @ssyjuco #CSST @carlosvillaart @bancroftlibrary #JessicaHagedorn
@stanfordaah @ucberkeley_artpractice @genericmatt
#DreamJungle

Dreamiest exhibition is opening January at @sfac_galleries!

🌴
The San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery is excited to present Dream Jungle, an exhibition in dialogue with the novel by Jessica Hagedorn. This group exhibition features artists who wield elements of performance to explore counter-ethnographies of the tropics, subverting colonial notions of the other.

Taking its title from Hagedorn’s 2003 novel, the exhibition explores the tangle of truth and artifice behind imperial representation. In the novel, the author stages two performances in the Philippine jungle: the media spectacle of a fabricated “Stone Age” tribe and the filming of a Hollywood Vietnam War epic. Drawing from this framework, Dream Jungle foregrounds the tropics as a zone of psychic and historical projection—where the colonized land and body are scripted, cast, and costumed for imperial consumption.

Through installation, video, literature, and archival assemblage, the artists enact what curator Matthew Villar Miranda calls “tropical counter-ethnographies": practices that seize the tropes of scripting, scoring, costuming, drag, fabrication, fore- and backgrounding, character building, scene-setting, and tableau to unsettle colonial modes of capture.

Featuring new commissions and key loans by Alexa Burrell a.k.a. LEXAGON, adrian clutario, Al-An deSouza, Astria Suparak, and Carlos Villa, along with archival holdings from The Center for the Study of the Study of the Tasaday and the Jessica Hagedorn Papers at The Bancroft Library.

🌺
Dream Jungle

@ San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Main Gallery
401 Van Ness, Ste. 126, San Francisco, CA

January 29 – May 2, 2026
Free and open to the public

Opening Reception:
Thurs., Jan. 29th, 6-8 pm (Remarks at 6:30pm)
sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/dream-jungle

@adesouza64 @astriasuparak @aaaaadriiiannnnn @fogapocalypse @ssyjuco #CSST @carlosvillaart @bancroftlibrary #JessicaHagedorn
@stanfordaah @ucberkeley_artpractice @genericmatt
#DreamJungle

Dreamiest exhibition is opening January at @sfac_galleries!

🌴
The San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery is excited to present Dream Jungle, an exhibition in dialogue with the novel by Jessica Hagedorn. This group exhibition features artists who wield elements of performance to explore counter-ethnographies of the tropics, subverting colonial notions of the other.

Taking its title from Hagedorn’s 2003 novel, the exhibition explores the tangle of truth and artifice behind imperial representation. In the novel, the author stages two performances in the Philippine jungle: the media spectacle of a fabricated “Stone Age” tribe and the filming of a Hollywood Vietnam War epic. Drawing from this framework, Dream Jungle foregrounds the tropics as a zone of psychic and historical projection—where the colonized land and body are scripted, cast, and costumed for imperial consumption.

Through installation, video, literature, and archival assemblage, the artists enact what curator Matthew Villar Miranda calls “tropical counter-ethnographies": practices that seize the tropes of scripting, scoring, costuming, drag, fabrication, fore- and backgrounding, character building, scene-setting, and tableau to unsettle colonial modes of capture.

Featuring new commissions and key loans by Alexa Burrell a.k.a. LEXAGON, adrian clutario, Al-An deSouza, Astria Suparak, and Carlos Villa, along with archival holdings from The Center for the Study of the Study of the Tasaday and the Jessica Hagedorn Papers at The Bancroft Library.

🌺
Dream Jungle

@ San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Main Gallery
401 Van Ness, Ste. 126, San Francisco, CA

January 29 – May 2, 2026
Free and open to the public

Opening Reception:
Thurs., Jan. 29th, 6-8 pm (Remarks at 6:30pm)
sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/dream-jungle

@adesouza64 @astriasuparak @aaaaadriiiannnnn @fogapocalypse @ssyjuco #CSST @carlosvillaart @bancroftlibrary #JessicaHagedorn
@stanfordaah @ucberkeley_artpractice @genericmatt
#DreamJungle

Dreamiest exhibition is opening January at @sfac_galleries!

🌴
The San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery is excited to present Dream Jungle, an exhibition in dialogue with the novel by Jessica Hagedorn. This group exhibition features artists who wield elements of performance to explore counter-ethnographies of the tropics, subverting colonial notions of the other.

Taking its title from Hagedorn’s 2003 novel, the exhibition explores the tangle of truth and artifice behind imperial representation. In the novel, the author stages two performances in the Philippine jungle: the media spectacle of a fabricated “Stone Age” tribe and the filming of a Hollywood Vietnam War epic. Drawing from this framework, Dream Jungle foregrounds the tropics as a zone of psychic and historical projection—where the colonized land and body are scripted, cast, and costumed for imperial consumption.

Through installation, video, literature, and archival assemblage, the artists enact what curator Matthew Villar Miranda calls “tropical counter-ethnographies": practices that seize the tropes of scripting, scoring, costuming, drag, fabrication, fore- and backgrounding, character building, scene-setting, and tableau to unsettle colonial modes of capture.

Featuring new commissions and key loans by Alexa Burrell a.k.a. LEXAGON, adrian clutario, Al-An deSouza, Astria Suparak, and Carlos Villa, along with archival holdings from The Center for the Study of the Study of the Tasaday and the Jessica Hagedorn Papers at The Bancroft Library.

🌺
Dream Jungle

@ San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Main Gallery
401 Van Ness, Ste. 126, San Francisco, CA

January 29 – May 2, 2026
Free and open to the public

Opening Reception:
Thurs., Jan. 29th, 6-8 pm (Remarks at 6:30pm)
sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/dream-jungle

@adesouza64 @astriasuparak @aaaaadriiiannnnn @fogapocalypse @ssyjuco #CSST @carlosvillaart @bancroftlibrary #JessicaHagedorn
@stanfordaah @ucberkeley_artpractice @genericmatt
#DreamJungle

Dreamiest exhibition is opening January at @sfac_galleries!

🌴
The San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery is excited to present Dream Jungle, an exhibition in dialogue with the novel by Jessica Hagedorn. This group exhibition features artists who wield elements of performance to explore counter-ethnographies of the tropics, subverting colonial notions of the other.

Taking its title from Hagedorn’s 2003 novel, the exhibition explores the tangle of truth and artifice behind imperial representation. In the novel, the author stages two performances in the Philippine jungle: the media spectacle of a fabricated “Stone Age” tribe and the filming of a Hollywood Vietnam War epic. Drawing from this framework, Dream Jungle foregrounds the tropics as a zone of psychic and historical projection—where the colonized land and body are scripted, cast, and costumed for imperial consumption.

Through installation, video, literature, and archival assemblage, the artists enact what curator Matthew Villar Miranda calls “tropical counter-ethnographies": practices that seize the tropes of scripting, scoring, costuming, drag, fabrication, fore- and backgrounding, character building, scene-setting, and tableau to unsettle colonial modes of capture.

Featuring new commissions and key loans by Alexa Burrell a.k.a. LEXAGON, adrian clutario, Al-An deSouza, Astria Suparak, and Carlos Villa, along with archival holdings from The Center for the Study of the Study of the Tasaday and the Jessica Hagedorn Papers at The Bancroft Library.

🌺
Dream Jungle

@ San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Main Gallery
401 Van Ness, Ste. 126, San Francisco, CA

January 29 – May 2, 2026
Free and open to the public

Opening Reception:
Thurs., Jan. 29th, 6-8 pm (Remarks at 6:30pm)
sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/dream-jungle

@adesouza64 @astriasuparak @aaaaadriiiannnnn @fogapocalypse @ssyjuco #CSST @carlosvillaart @bancroftlibrary #JessicaHagedorn
@stanfordaah @ucberkeley_artpractice @genericmatt
#DreamJungle

Dreamiest exhibition is opening January at @sfac_galleries!

🌴
The San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery is excited to present Dream Jungle, an exhibition in dialogue with the novel by Jessica Hagedorn. This group exhibition features artists who wield elements of performance to explore counter-ethnographies of the tropics, subverting colonial notions of the other.

Taking its title from Hagedorn’s 2003 novel, the exhibition explores the tangle of truth and artifice behind imperial representation. In the novel, the author stages two performances in the Philippine jungle: the media spectacle of a fabricated “Stone Age” tribe and the filming of a Hollywood Vietnam War epic. Drawing from this framework, Dream Jungle foregrounds the tropics as a zone of psychic and historical projection—where the colonized land and body are scripted, cast, and costumed for imperial consumption.

Through installation, video, literature, and archival assemblage, the artists enact what curator Matthew Villar Miranda calls “tropical counter-ethnographies": practices that seize the tropes of scripting, scoring, costuming, drag, fabrication, fore- and backgrounding, character building, scene-setting, and tableau to unsettle colonial modes of capture.

Featuring new commissions and key loans by Alexa Burrell a.k.a. LEXAGON, adrian clutario, Al-An deSouza, Astria Suparak, and Carlos Villa, along with archival holdings from The Center for the Study of the Study of the Tasaday and the Jessica Hagedorn Papers at The Bancroft Library.

🌺
Dream Jungle

@ San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Main Gallery
401 Van Ness, Ste. 126, San Francisco, CA

January 29 – May 2, 2026
Free and open to the public

Opening Reception:
Thurs., Jan. 29th, 6-8 pm (Remarks at 6:30pm)
sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/dream-jungle

@adesouza64 @astriasuparak @aaaaadriiiannnnn @fogapocalypse @ssyjuco #CSST @carlosvillaart @bancroftlibrary #JessicaHagedorn
@stanfordaah @ucberkeley_artpractice @genericmatt
#DreamJungle

Dreamiest exhibition is opening January at @sfac_galleries!

🌴
The San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery is excited to present Dream Jungle, an exhibition in dialogue with the novel by Jessica Hagedorn. This group exhibition features artists who wield elements of performance to explore counter-ethnographies of the tropics, subverting colonial notions of the other.

Taking its title from Hagedorn’s 2003 novel, the exhibition explores the tangle of truth and artifice behind imperial representation. In the novel, the author stages two performances in the Philippine jungle: the media spectacle of a fabricated “Stone Age” tribe and the filming of a Hollywood Vietnam War epic. Drawing from this framework, Dream Jungle foregrounds the tropics as a zone of psychic and historical projection—where the colonized land and body are scripted, cast, and costumed for imperial consumption.

Through installation, video, literature, and archival assemblage, the artists enact what curator Matthew Villar Miranda calls “tropical counter-ethnographies": practices that seize the tropes of scripting, scoring, costuming, drag, fabrication, fore- and backgrounding, character building, scene-setting, and tableau to unsettle colonial modes of capture.

Featuring new commissions and key loans by Alexa Burrell a.k.a. LEXAGON, adrian clutario, Al-An deSouza, Astria Suparak, and Carlos Villa, along with archival holdings from The Center for the Study of the Study of the Tasaday and the Jessica Hagedorn Papers at The Bancroft Library.

🌺
Dream Jungle

@ San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Main Gallery
401 Van Ness, Ste. 126, San Francisco, CA

January 29 – May 2, 2026
Free and open to the public

Opening Reception:
Thurs., Jan. 29th, 6-8 pm (Remarks at 6:30pm)
sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/dream-jungle

@adesouza64 @astriasuparak @aaaaadriiiannnnn @fogapocalypse @ssyjuco #CSST @carlosvillaart @bancroftlibrary #JessicaHagedorn
@stanfordaah @ucberkeley_artpractice @genericmatt
#DreamJungle

Dreamiest exhibition is opening January at @sfac_galleries!

🌴
The San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery is excited to present Dream Jungle, an exhibition in dialogue with the novel by Jessica Hagedorn. This group exhibition features artists who wield elements of performance to explore counter-ethnographies of the tropics, subverting colonial notions of the other.

Taking its title from Hagedorn’s 2003 novel, the exhibition explores the tangle of truth and artifice behind imperial representation. In the novel, the author stages two performances in the Philippine jungle: the media spectacle of a fabricated “Stone Age” tribe and the filming of a Hollywood Vietnam War epic. Drawing from this framework, Dream Jungle foregrounds the tropics as a zone of psychic and historical projection—where the colonized land and body are scripted, cast, and costumed for imperial consumption.

Through installation, video, literature, and archival assemblage, the artists enact what curator Matthew Villar Miranda calls “tropical counter-ethnographies": practices that seize the tropes of scripting, scoring, costuming, drag, fabrication, fore- and backgrounding, character building, scene-setting, and tableau to unsettle colonial modes of capture.

Featuring new commissions and key loans by Alexa Burrell a.k.a. LEXAGON, adrian clutario, Al-An deSouza, Astria Suparak, and Carlos Villa, along with archival holdings from The Center for the Study of the Study of the Tasaday and the Jessica Hagedorn Papers at The Bancroft Library.

🌺
Dream Jungle

@ San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Main Gallery
401 Van Ness, Ste. 126, San Francisco, CA

January 29 – May 2, 2026
Free and open to the public

Opening Reception:
Thurs., Jan. 29th, 6-8 pm (Remarks at 6:30pm)
sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/dream-jungle

@adesouza64 @astriasuparak @aaaaadriiiannnnn @fogapocalypse @ssyjuco #CSST @carlosvillaart @bancroftlibrary #JessicaHagedorn
@stanfordaah @ucberkeley_artpractice @genericmatt
#DreamJungle

Dreamiest exhibition is opening January at @sfac_galleries!

🌴
The San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery is excited to present Dream Jungle, an exhibition in dialogue with the novel by Jessica Hagedorn. This group exhibition features artists who wield elements of performance to explore counter-ethnographies of the tropics, subverting colonial notions of the other.

Taking its title from Hagedorn’s 2003 novel, the exhibition explores the tangle of truth and artifice behind imperial representation. In the novel, the author stages two performances in the Philippine jungle: the media spectacle of a fabricated “Stone Age” tribe and the filming of a Hollywood Vietnam War epic. Drawing from this framework, Dream Jungle foregrounds the tropics as a zone of psychic and historical projection—where the colonized land and body are scripted, cast, and costumed for imperial consumption.

Through installation, video, literature, and archival assemblage, the artists enact what curator Matthew Villar Miranda calls “tropical counter-ethnographies": practices that seize the tropes of scripting, scoring, costuming, drag, fabrication, fore- and backgrounding, character building, scene-setting, and tableau to unsettle colonial modes of capture.

Featuring new commissions and key loans by Alexa Burrell a.k.a. LEXAGON, adrian clutario, Al-An deSouza, Astria Suparak, and Carlos Villa, along with archival holdings from The Center for the Study of the Study of the Tasaday and the Jessica Hagedorn Papers at The Bancroft Library.

🌺
Dream Jungle

@ San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Main Gallery
401 Van Ness, Ste. 126, San Francisco, CA

January 29 – May 2, 2026
Free and open to the public

Opening Reception:
Thurs., Jan. 29th, 6-8 pm (Remarks at 6:30pm)
sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/dream-jungle

@adesouza64 @astriasuparak @aaaaadriiiannnnn @fogapocalypse @ssyjuco #CSST @carlosvillaart @bancroftlibrary #JessicaHagedorn
@stanfordaah @ucberkeley_artpractice @genericmatt
#DreamJungle

Dreamiest exhibition is opening January at @sfac_galleries!

🌴
The San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery is excited to present Dream Jungle, an exhibition in dialogue with the novel by Jessica Hagedorn. This group exhibition features artists who wield elements of performance to explore counter-ethnographies of the tropics, subverting colonial notions of the other.

Taking its title from Hagedorn’s 2003 novel, the exhibition explores the tangle of truth and artifice behind imperial representation. In the novel, the author stages two performances in the Philippine jungle: the media spectacle of a fabricated “Stone Age” tribe and the filming of a Hollywood Vietnam War epic. Drawing from this framework, Dream Jungle foregrounds the tropics as a zone of psychic and historical projection—where the colonized land and body are scripted, cast, and costumed for imperial consumption.

Through installation, video, literature, and archival assemblage, the artists enact what curator Matthew Villar Miranda calls “tropical counter-ethnographies": practices that seize the tropes of scripting, scoring, costuming, drag, fabrication, fore- and backgrounding, character building, scene-setting, and tableau to unsettle colonial modes of capture.

Featuring new commissions and key loans by Alexa Burrell a.k.a. LEXAGON, adrian clutario, Al-An deSouza, Astria Suparak, and Carlos Villa, along with archival holdings from The Center for the Study of the Study of the Tasaday and the Jessica Hagedorn Papers at The Bancroft Library.

🌺
Dream Jungle

@ San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Main Gallery
401 Van Ness, Ste. 126, San Francisco, CA

January 29 – May 2, 2026
Free and open to the public

Opening Reception:
Thurs., Jan. 29th, 6-8 pm (Remarks at 6:30pm)
sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/dream-jungle

@adesouza64 @astriasuparak @aaaaadriiiannnnn @fogapocalypse @ssyjuco #CSST @carlosvillaart @bancroftlibrary #JessicaHagedorn
@stanfordaah @ucberkeley_artpractice @genericmatt
#DreamJungle

Today is my birthday so i will shamelessly post the headshots my bud @robbiesweeny snapped! 💗💗💗 love u

Today is my birthday so i will shamelessly post the headshots my bud @robbiesweeny snapped! 💗💗💗 love u

Today is my birthday so i will shamelessly post the headshots my bud @robbiesweeny snapped! 💗💗💗 love u

My 3rd trip to NYC this year! Thank you Queer Art for showing me so much love! Photo dump of some memories i dont want to forget💫

My 3rd trip to NYC this year! Thank you Queer Art for showing me so much love! Photo dump of some memories i dont want to forget💫

My 3rd trip to NYC this year! Thank you Queer Art for showing me so much love! Photo dump of some memories i dont want to forget💫

My 3rd trip to NYC this year! Thank you Queer Art for showing me so much love! Photo dump of some memories i dont want to forget💫

My 3rd trip to NYC this year! Thank you Queer Art for showing me so much love! Photo dump of some memories i dont want to forget💫

My 3rd trip to NYC this year! Thank you Queer Art for showing me so much love! Photo dump of some memories i dont want to forget💫

My 3rd trip to NYC this year! Thank you Queer Art for showing me so much love! Photo dump of some memories i dont want to forget💫

My 3rd trip to NYC this year! Thank you Queer Art for showing me so much love! Photo dump of some memories i dont want to forget💫

My 3rd trip to NYC this year! Thank you Queer Art for showing me so much love! Photo dump of some memories i dont want to forget💫

My 3rd trip to NYC this year! Thank you Queer Art for showing me so much love! Photo dump of some memories i dont want to forget💫

My 3rd trip to NYC this year! Thank you Queer Art for showing me so much love! Photo dump of some memories i dont want to forget💫

My 3rd trip to NYC this year! Thank you Queer Art for showing me so much love! Photo dump of some memories i dont want to forget💫