SYSTEMS UNMADE

Works by
Dread Scott
Jonathan Allen
Khaled Jarrar
Jenny Polak
Cassandra Zampini
Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere

Opening Reception
Thursday, April 30, 2026
6–9 PM

On View
April 30 – May 1, 2026

178 Bleecker Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012

Systems Unmade confronts the structures shaping contemporary life – media, advertising, political power, and inherited systems of control. Through disruption, distortion, and recontextualization, the artists reveal the hidden mechanics of authority embedded in everyday images and systems. Authoritarianism is never fixed in history; instead it evolves, adapting to new technologies, aesthetics, and modes of influence. In the making of these works, these mechanisms begin to come undone, creating a space to offer an alternate reality. As one work in the exhibition states: It Doesn’t Have to Be Like This.