Carpenter Center for the Visual ArtsHarvard Square, Cambridge
Knowledge Is Myth: Chimeric Continuities
Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien, Candice Lin, Cole Lu, and Ayoung Yu and Nicholas Oh treat mythmaking as a way of making and unmaking knowledge, drawing on pre-colonial, diasporic and chimeric traditions.
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You meet a woman's head that glows from inside, organs dangling beneath it. She is the ahp, a vampiric spirit from Southeast Asian folklore, and Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien built her from foraged organic material for waves move bile (2020).
Candice Lin shows works on paper from her 2015 show You are a spacious fluid sac, inspired by parasitic insects. Cole Lu has made a new installation drawn with fire, about trans identity and becoming monstrous. AYDO (Ayoung Yu and Nicholas Oh) bring large ceramic fountains and video built on pre-colonial Korean rituals. Between them sit rare books, manuscripts and charts from Harvard's collections, including Louis Agassiz's research on polygenism. Harvard's motto is Veritas, and it pulled those books from its own libraries for a show called Knowledge Is Myth.
Entry is free, Tuesday to Sunday, 12 to 5pm. Curators lead tours from 28 October to 9 December, and Camacho and Lien hold a screening and talk on 5 and 6 November.
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The glowing heads of waves move bile
Look for women's heads lit from within, organs hanging below, sculpted from foraged organic material to summon the ahp, a folklore spirit of former French Indochina.
AYDO's ceramic fountains
Fermented Dreams (2026) sets large ceramic fountains beside performance video of pre-colonial Korean rituals filmed at sites from the DMZ and Jeju Island to Hokkaido.
Cole Lu's fire drawings
A new site-specific installation drawn by pyrography, burning lines into the surface, that retells Western monster myths as a story of trans becoming.
Harvard's own archive
Rare books, manuscripts and charts from the university's libraries, including zoologist Louis Agassiz's research on polygenism, sit annotated among the artworks.
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