Harmony Holiday

Central to the exhibition is Abide With Me (2024), a short film of collaged archival material and Fred Moten’s voice-over of a text written by Holiday that meditates on Black artistic identity before fame through a close look at the life of Thelonious Monk. In other sculptural and multimedia works, Holiday finds an exchange of energy in what is unseen or unheard. “Inheritances looking for expression,” the artist writes, articulating a connection between the physical space of the backstage and the interiority it embodies. Holiday’s “backstage” at The Kitchen unfolds as a thesis of rehearsal, resurrection, restoration, and collaboration.