A Space Between Worlds

A Space Between Worlds, our 2024–2025 Winter Exhibition, features nine artists throughout Maxon Mills.

On the first floor, Dana Robinson creates a moment of respite with a soft, tent-like fabric and textile installation, while Mary Tooley Parker depicts domestic scenes in hooked tapestries: views from the kitchen window, family at a feast, a sumptuous seven-layer salad. On the second floor, Paolo Arao's handwoven installation envelops viewers in meticulous new geometries. On the third floor, Jazmine Hayes' of blood and water, make me new to be old again (filmed while in residence at the Wassaic Project and screened for the first time on the side of Maxon Mills earlier this year) uses Assata Shakur’s poem “Affirmation” as a touchpoint to explore — through improvisational dance, sound healing, and breathwork — the rebellious spirit inherent in the act of living, growing, and experiencing within oppressive conditions. On the fourth floor, Jamal Ademola's film Ellas Vinieron de Las Nubes follows three young Afro-Mexicans in Oaxaca seeking to rediscover their African ancestral roots in a world that denies their existence. On the fifth floor, Regina Durante Jestrow's geometric quilts alter and reimagine landscapes and lightscapes from her home in Miami, while Judy Suh's To the Moon and Back collages elements from George Melie’s A Trip to the Moon — the first narrative film ever made — into a dreamlike video installation. On the sixth floor, Amira Pualwan's handwoven cotton and jacquard hanging pieces mix electric reds with soft oranges, peaches, and blues to to evoke sunsets, flames, shadows. And on the seventh floor, Walker Esner's AI-generated photos invoke the eeriness of early photography and cinema — visions of a strange somewhere else between this world and another.