Piecing together sculptural and filmic fragments, “The more we get together” presents the notion of self as an allegory of memory. Looking out over Canal Street, the exhibition considers the apparent contradictions of history and sentiment, material and memory, politics and belonging, bringing such questions outside traditional gallery surrounds. Drawing together works by Gordon Matta-Clark, Hsu Tsun Hsu, Lotus L. Kang, Kishio Suga, and Lynne Yamamoto, the exhibition considers traces of collective memory, personal histories, and self-presentation.

The exhibition borrows its title from a photographic series by Hsu Tsun-Hsu (許村旭), taken between 1988 and 1998, which captures moments of both urban mundanity and turbulent social change in the decade following the lifting of martial law in Taiwan. The images in the series are dark, absurd, and playful, both quotidian and extraordinary. Across a thirty-year career as a photojournalist, the vast majority of Hsu’s photographs never made it to print and were set aside for decades. The images presented in the exhibition are selected from his personal archive, taken on assignment amidst historic and transformative moments, capturing both the banal and sensational.