Exhibitions

ENTRE SER Y NO SER: MIGRATION, RESILIENCE, AND THE UNSEEN

The Browsing Room Gallery (Downtown Presbyterian Church) / 154 Rep. John Lewis Way N. September 13 - October 25th

Keisha Lopez, Cesar Pita, Andrés Bustamante, Ruben Torres, Alfredo Gonzalez

Entre Ser y No Ser — translated as In Between Being and Not — is a group exhibition featuring Keisha Lopez, Cesar Pita, Andrés Bustamante, Ruben Torres, and Alfredo Gonzalez (Dofre). The exhibition unfolds as a visual dialogue between painters, sculptors, ceramicists, muralists, and portraitists, where five distinct practices converge to explore migration, memory, resilience, and identity across generations and geographies.

Rather than speaking individually, the works speak to one another in a layered conversation, where form, texture, and medium intertwine. Clay vessels carry ancestral memory and labor into the present. Landscapes dissolve into psychological and mystical terrains, where healing emerges as a radical act of survival. Portraits fragment and reform, exposing the quiet violence of erasure while reclaiming space for dignity and belonging. Sculptures transform emotion into form, holding what language cannot capture, while murals create living archives—offering collective visibility to stories so often made unseen.

Entre Ser y No Ser invites audiences into a threshold space—where displacement meets imagination, where silence meets storytelling, and where resilience is revealed not as an endpoint but as an ongoing act of becoming. The exhibition reflects the shared experience of migrant communities navigating borders—seen and unseen—while uncovering the collective threads that bind personal memory to global histories.

“Entre Ser y No Ser asks us to pause and listen,” says curator and sculptor Andrés Bustamante. “These artists aren’t simply sharing personal narratives—they’re building a collective archive of what it means to hold memory, navigate displacement, and reimagine belonging in a changing United States of America.”