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Infinite thanks to everyone involved in the exhibition “To time, to distance,” from its planning, hosting, ideating, and actualizing—especially the artists @alisa.berger.mun @dariakimdariakimdariakimdaria @tomapeiu and @luiza.parvu ❣️ Deep gratitude to @ahlfoundation team for all their support and to our collaborators @sophia_sofaar with @gummireading , @far___near and @asiaartarchiveinamerica team🌱 Special thank you to @chuki_now for the installation help and @muhebistan for the production, @life.of.chai for the editorial support, and @jogutten of @studio82a for the design. Additional thanks to @elliot_gong , @cafebustillo , @sea__taylor , and so many more! Shout out to everyone who attended the opening reception 🫶 The show is up until April 25, we hope you will make time to see it.

We are excited to finally announce a detailed program schedule for the satellite and on-site events accompanying the exhibition To time, to distance on view at AHL Foundation from March 26 through April 25. During the opening reception on March 26 from 5-8pm, Daria Kim (@dariakimdariakimdariakimdaria ) will present The Other Body, an interactive durational performance in which the audience is invited to engage with a story of a spirit aspiring to embody a physical form. Confronted with the choice between destruction and creation, participants can either help the spirit grow or let it melt. This week on March 27, from 6:30-8:30pm, please join us for an event at Asia Art Archive in America (@asiaartarchiveinamerica ), and on March 28, from 4-6pm for a screening of Alisa Berger’s Three Borders (@alisa.berger.mun ) at Far-Near (@far___near ). Alongside the exhibition, gummi reading (@gummireading ), convened by Sophia Park (@sophia_sofaar ), will be open as a space for gathering, study, and research. Some of the selected materials will include printed matter brought by Park from her recent trip to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, pertaining to the history of Koryo-Saram, as well as art and cultural production in Central Asia. gummi is a small roving reading room of various printed matter, from zines to books and more, with an overarching focus on diasporic materials and exchange. By offering a space for conversation, reading, and study, gummi encourages spending time together as a first step to better understanding each other and knowledge exchange. Please reach out to [email protected] to schedule a visit or visit a calendar link in our bio. On April, 11, please come to AHL for a lecture by Toma Peiu (@tomapeiu ), and on April 14, we’ve planned an evening with filmmaker Kim Soyoung. Throughout the run of the exhibition, we have also prepared a number of curatorial walkthroughs on April 4 and April 25. For more details, please see images in the carousel or reach out! Images: Slide 2: Daria Kim, The Other Body, 2023. Photo: Lorenz Lang. Slide 4: gummi reading. Photo: Sophia Park.

We are thrilled to present “Koryo-saram and its Afterlives: Art In and Beyond the Korean Diaspora of Central Asia” on Friday 3/27 at 6:30pm. ⁠ ⁠ Starting with the history of Koryo-saram, the program will frame diaspora as a site of ongoing negotiations, frictions, and innovations. With research-based presentations, field notes, and artist talks by Sophia Park (@sophia_sofaar ), Alisa Berger (@alisa.berger.mun ), Daria Kim (@dariakimdariakimdariakimdaria ), and Toma Peiu (@tomapeiu ), the evening will reflect on how legacies of forced migration unfold across space and time, challenging the issue of continuity. Following presentations the artists will join for a conversation moderated by Park.⁠ ⁠ This program is in conjunction with the exhibition “To time, to distance,” featuring artists Alisa Berger, Daria Kim, Luiza Pârvu, and Toma Peiu. The exhibition, co-curated by Tamara Khasanova (@tkhasanovaa ) and Junho Peter Yoon (@yoonjuno_ ), will be on view @ahlfoundation through April 25th. ⁠ ⁠ For more information and RSVP’s please use the link in our bio.

What survives displacement and what vanishes with it? On Saturday, March 28 at 4pm, we are screening Alisa Berger’s Three Borders, a film essay that traces her family lineages across three generations—Korean and Ukrainian-Jewish—amidst deportations, wars, and erasures. Composed from the artist’s family archives, text, and found images, Berger transposes the crossings over of physical, geographic borders into those of the more affective and intangible nature like love and death. Through the artist’s voice, Three Borders narrates a reckoning with the inherited memories that exceed the scale of one’s lifetime. The screening will be followed by an in-person Q&A with Berger. The screening is organized in conjunction with the exhibition To time, to distance curated by Tamara Khasanova and Junho Peter Yoon on view at AHL Foundation from March 26 through April 25, 2026. About the artist: Alisa Berger was born in 1987 in Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan, and raised in Lviv, Ukraine and later Essen, Germany. She studied at KHM Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotá and Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. She was nominated for the Max Ophüls Prize and the Deutsche Filmakademie FIRST STEPS Award. In 2023 she received the Studio Collector Prize at Jeu de Paume. Her work has been shown at institutions such as Eye Filmmuseum, Jeu de Paume, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Centre-Wallonie-Bruxelles Paris, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, and Kindl Berlin, as well as at film festivals including Berlinale, IDFA, CPH:DOX, and Hot Docs, among others. From 2018 to 2022, she lived in Tokyo and studied Butoh performance. #farnearstudiohours #alisaberger #koreandiaspora #koryosaram

Friends, we are happy to finally share the news and invite you to join us for the opening reception of the exhibition "To time, to distance" on Thursday, March 26 from 5-8pm at AHL Foundation with Alisa Berger (@alisa.berger.mun ), Daria Kim (@dariakimdariakimdariakimdaria ), Luiza Pârvu (@luiza.parvu ) and Toma Peiu (@tomapeiu ). The exhibition will be up through Saturday, April 25, and accompanied by a series of public programs. We will be sharing a detailed schedule soon. It’s been a lot of labor of love and care, and we cannot wait to share the fruit of this work with all of you. You can read more information about the show in the link in our bios. We would like to thank the AHL Foundation @ahlfoundation team for giving us this opportunity and space to make this possible. Thank you John from 82A @studio82a for the incredible design. And many thanks to our friends who helped along the way with making this happen. Please come to celebrate the artists and their incredible works with us. See you all in less than a month <3

AHL Foundation is pleased to announce ✨Tamara Khasanova as a 2025 recipient of the AHL–Andrew & Barbara Choi Family Foundation Project Grant. The grant will support Khasanova and Junho Peter Yoon’s collective curatorial project, which examines the history and identity of the Koryo Saram — ethnic Koreans displaced across the Soviet Union during the 20th century. Using the concept of the “post-diasporic,” the exhibition highlights the complexity of belonging, displacement, and memory. The exhibition will open in March 2026 at the AHL Foundation Gallery (2605 Frederick Douglass Blvd., #C1, New York, NY 10030). ✨About Tamara Khasanova Tamara Khasanova is an independent curator, researcher, and writer based in Brooklyn, New York, originally from Ukraine and Uzbekistan. She was a 2024–25 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (ISP) and holds an MA degree in Curatorial Practice from the School of Visual Arts. Her research and curatorial work center emergent aesthetics, pedagogical and discursive practices, and forms of collective knowledge production, oriented toward questions of language, ecology, nuclear legacies, and colonial histories. She has curated exhibitions, organized screenings, lectured, and contributed to projects across cultural, publishing, and educational institutions including e-flux, Protocinema, Davra Curatorial Lab, White Columns, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, The Clark Art Institute, the Queens Museum, and TransitoryWhite, among others. She currently serves as Studio Director for the artist duo Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme and is part of the adisciplinary publishing platform Bilna’es.

very excited and humbled to announce that our ISP curatorial exhibition, a grammar of attention, co-curated with Bea Ortega Botas (@pompousbob ) Kennedy Hollins Jones (@kennedyhollins ), and Ntshadi Mofokeng (@_shwalane ) opens on May 9th from 6-8pm and will be up until May 18th. so grateful to have been able to work and share space with such an amazing group of artists: Zalika Azim (@26thletter ), Fadl Fakhouri (@fadlfakhouri ), Noel Maghathe (@nawal.magh ), Fargo Nissim Tbakhi (@youknowfargo ), @the.black.gaze in collaboration with Cierra Michele Peters (@earthaclit ) and Rai Terry (@raimckterry ), Haitham Haddad (@_sukhmat ), Fatemeh Kazemi (@afimoh_____ ),Arnold J. Kemp (@arnoldjosephkemp ), Christian Nyampeta (@christiannyampeta ), Luvuyo Equiano Nyawose (@luvuyoequianonyawose ), Rafael Sánchez (@allupinit_123 ), Asia Stewart (@asiastewart ) venue: The Ramscale Penthouse, 463 West St Penthouse, New York, NY 10014. Between Bank Street and Bethune Street. Take elevator to penthouse floor (13th Floor) please make sure to check out our incredibly rich schedule of performances. the exhibition and performances are free and open to all. don’t forget to also see the ISP studio exhibition with works by fifteen incredible fellows that also opens on May 9th and stop by the critical studies symposium on May 18th✨ can’t wait to see you there💛 image: Zalika Azim, Gathering #3 (Double Dutch Study), 2021, Charcoal on paper, 32 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches.

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feels like ages ago

graveyards, tombstones, beehives, and an orange hat i borrowed (and almost stole) from charles

it’s been a while @imfake2.0 thank you for 📸

Asked @_____annabelle___ to send me pictures of this liminal spot outside my family house in Dnipro. We loved it as kids. Year after year, it’s always been full of such lush, mysterious greenery, with the weeping willow taking center stage, being a guiding point for us all in the family. Now the usual tranquility of this space is disturbed by the signs of war. My heart aches hearing the sirens in the last video..