The Final Echo Isn’t a Sound

June 12, 2025

The Final Echo Isn’t A Sound marks a return and reinvention for Alexandre Kasproviez, presenting over thirty new large scale-works that explore the fleeting moments before memory fades, and is shaped by his time in Brazil and New York. Bringing together both his blurred landscapes and photo realistic works into one show, he shares a more personal, intimate narrative that feels like emotional flashbacks.

“The exhibition invites us to reflect on the fleeting moments before death — what stays in our memory and what we hold onto. Alexandre’s blurred subjects challenge us to reconsider both our personal memories and our collective history, capturing the tension between what endures and what fades away.” Adds Léa Coussy, Co-founder of Maestria. His signature blurred technique, mixed with such realism allows for these striking works when viewed as a whole, but once up close and personal, this technique creates for the most abstract outcomes.

With such a personal body of work there was also experimentation within his creative process, especially for his piece 'The World Vanishes In Red'. He decided to leave the artwork outside for a period of time to weather, connect with nature and add a further level of nuance to the piece.

Photography Max B & Clifton Mooney

The Final Echo Isn’t A Sound will be on view at 545 W 23rd Street, Chelsea, from June 5 to June 21, 2025.

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Call 1-800-Give Them Their Flowers Today

July 06, 2026

If there was a magic phone hotline where you could call anyone anonymously and leave a voicemail, who would you call? Someone you love, miss, never thanked, left things unsaid? DJ, producer, and multidisciplinary artist, Kitty Ca$h, presents the public with this very opportunity with the activation of 1-800-Give-Them-Their-Flowers opening July 3rd and on view until August 4th. Here, memory is a living thing and participation is the art itself.

Hosted at African Diaspora Goods by Denim Tears in SoHo, the public hotline, textile installation, and listening experience expands on Energy Reserve System (ERS), Kitty Ca$h’s artistic framework examining how Black communities store, transmit, and regenerate collective memory, care, and knowledge across generations.

Photos Courtesy of Proyecto Análogo

To celebrate America’s 250th anniversary, Kitty Ca$h invites us to participate in the preservation of people and memory. Conceived from a concern of the ongoing erasure of Black, women, and other histories from official records, the hotline allows the public to curate an evolving counter-archive of personal recollection.

The core belief of the project is that memory is a collective act. It is a response to censored or completely erased narratives, bringing awareness to how fragile our collective memory can be. Kitty explains “if institutions fail, if curricula change, if books disappear, what are the other systems through which memory survives? Voice. Music. Storytelling. Community. Family histories. Oral traditions. Participation.” 1-800-Give Them Their Flowers asks what happens when remembrance becomes a public act. The project isn’t interested in preserving history as something fixed, rather, it’s interested in memory as something living, something carried from person to person, generation to generation. Ultimately, it asks: ‘Who gets remembered, and what stories are carried forward when no one is keeping the record?’”

The activation begins July 3rd with an on-site textile installation of a large-scale sailorcloth accompanied with sculptural maritime rope and thread. Denim Tears is a fitting host, as each collection is built around African history and the legacy of cotton and slavery in fashion. Join the African Diaspora Goods Library July 5th to hear a public conversation between Kitty Ca$h and Dr. Honey Crawford on Black memory, communication systems, and the role of cultural preservation. A listening experience of The Human Mixtape, a sound piece sampling Christina Sharpe’s 2022 Venice Biennale keynote, What Could a Vessel Be?, will also be a part of the installation. Rooted in the legacy of hip-hop mixtape culture, the sample functions as a living system of sound and memory, offering an early glimpse into the sonic language of Kitty Ca$h’s forthcoming EP and the broader ERS universe.

Call toll-free hotline 1-800-207-3520 to preserve your memory today!

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CASABIANCA Unveils Artist Suites in Como

Each suite is dedicated to a different artist Simona Uberto, Roger Selden, and Aldo Spoldi whose site-specific works shape the identity of the spaces. Alongside original furnishings by figures including Gio Ponti, Luigi Caccia Dominioni, and Max Ingrand, the project reflects CASABIANCA's continued commitment to presenting art as something to live with, while inviting guests to explore the villa's collection through an intimate, museum-like experience.

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Jesper D. Lund Publishes CANAL

Originally photographed during breaks from the office magazine studio on Canal Street, the images were edited years later after the publication relocated, resulting in a curated selection of roughly 40 photographs. Spanning quiet street scenes and fleeting observations, CANAL reflects Lund's understated approach to documenting the city that shaped both his work and the magazine's early years.