Shani Strand

Artists Space presents Everything Must Be Returned, the first New York institutional solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Shani Strand. Occupying the gallery's entire ground floor, the exhibition combines a newly commissioned film with an immersive installation of sculptures exploring colonial histories, diasporic memory, and the legacies of extraction and violence. Inspired by Black feminist thought and Caribbean history, Strand draws on trickster figures, ghosts, and culturally charged materials to consider how histories of empire continue to shape contemporary social and political realities.