New York City - July 7, 2025 –  Sabroso! is excited to announce Objects of Memory, a new group exhibition in collaboration with Black Brick Projects on view at 15 N Oxford St, Brooklyn, NY 11205.  

Photography has always existed in a state of tension—between the flat and the dimensional, the singular and the multiple, the mechanical and the expressive. Despite its historical association with two-dimensionality, reproducibility, and realism, it has consistently shown itself to be a medium capable of expansion. It is precisely these traditional constraints—its paper-thin form, its reproducible nature, its dependence on light and surface—that have given artists something to push against. And in that resistance, the medium reveals its most sculptural potential.

Artists have long challenged what a photograph is and what it can become. This exhibition explores the expanding boundaries of photography and drawing as they transition into sculptural forms. I’ve been observing a growing movement where artists push beyond the flatness of traditional media, engaging with space, materiality, and form in urgent, exciting, and necessary ways. The transformation of photography into sculpture allows the image to no longer exist solely as representation—it becomes a tangible, dimensional object, something to move around, to hold, to feel.

What’s particularly compelling about the ten artists in this exhibition is that nearly all of them work with archives—personal, familial, or collective. Every studio visit has circled back to the archive as a beginning point. Whether drawn from diasporic realities, family photo albums, or community histories, these materials carry both memory and meaning. The archive is where the conceptual work begins. From there, form follows feeling—artists experiment with how material can embody memory, how surface can hold history, how the sculptural object can carry emotional and political weight.

Many of these artists share experiences of migration, of being between geographies, of living in translation. Their works reflect a doubled perspective—rooted in the past, but grounded in the present; personal yet communal. They’re not just expanding photography—they’re making it tactile. The photograph becomes not only something to see but something to sense: layered, fragmented, cut, folded, embedded, or reconstructed. These processes mirror how memory works—accumulative, nonlinear, and often fragile.

In a time of increasing erasure—of histories, of identities, of the humanity of our communities—there is a pressing need for remembrance. Through their work, these artists reconstruct, reimagine, and reclaim narratives, making memory something you can not only see but touch.

The artists featured are Isabela Arboleda-Ocoro, Nathalie Basoski, McKayla Chandler, Mónica Félix, Brandon Foushée, Sebastián Meltz Collazo, Katherine Miranda, Heidie Mojica, Javier E. Piñero, Kevin Quiles Bonilla, and Camille Rouzaud . 

This exhibition is indebted to a lineage of shows that have explored photography’s material and spatial possibilities, including Photography into Sculpture (MoMA, 1970), The Photographic Object, 1970 (Hauser & Wirth, 2014), Photodimensional (Museum of Contemporary Photography, Feb 13–Apr 19, 2009), and Sculpture Into Photography(Moskowitz Bayse, 2023).

Black Brick Project is a cultural center in the industrial comforts near Brooklyn’s Navy Yard, that provides artists, musicians, community organizers, and educators the resources and platform they need to share their work and expand their practices. Black Brick has studios and a gallery space, which cultivate community, pairing creators and viewers in proximity to each other. We support all artists and all forms of art. Aiming to generate dialogue through exhibitions and cultural events bringing the community together.