Love Letters to Aliens 

October 25, 2025 – February 7, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION:
Saturday, October 25, 5:00 – 8:00 PM, featuring performance by Roco Córdova and dj set by Alchemia

Curated by Sholeh Asgary

ARTISTS:
Rana Hamadeh, Xandra Ibarra, Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo, Maryam Tafakory, Yue Xiang

Love Letters to Aliens is an exhibition and event series featuring work by Rana Hamadeh, Xandra Ibarra, Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo, Maryam Tafakory, and Yue Xiang, with performances by Roco Córdova, and considers the notion of the alien in its most expansive sense—from the extraterrestrial to the intimate.

The project is framed by the drawn, decomposed, or transgressed borders of bodies, land, and matter. It examines how seduction, repulsion, and obfuscation can function as strategies of survival and acts of celebration in the erosion of entrenched systems.

From counter-archives to material excess and tender address, the artists of Love Letters to Aliens incorporate various mediums and methodologies in their works which include sculpture, drawing, performance, video, and grief work. Collectively, these works demonstrate the ways in which archives, affect, and material can render certain lives legible while withholding others.

ABOUT THE CURATOR
SHOLEH ASGARY (b. Tehran, Iran) is an artist whose practice engages sound, hybrid art forms, and performance to investigate, memorialize, and express the complexities of joy and survival inherent in diasporic and refugee experiences. Asgary’s primary material and deepest conceptual concern is sound. Through site-specific installations, sound sculptures, performances, archival projects, and collective collaborations, her work challenges colonial assumptions about what is heard, proposing new futures.