Welancora Gallery and Ivy’s Projects are pleased to present Empire is Not Forever, a group exhibition guest curated by Alyssa Alexander and Cyle Warner. The exhibition will be on view at Ivy’s Projects (410 Jefferson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11221), and includes work by Jill Cohen-Nuñez, Jazmine Hayes, Pedro Troncoso, Cyle Warner, and Kemar Keanu Wynter. The opening reception will take place on May 7, 2026, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm.
Empire Is Not Forever gathers works engaged with the slow unraveling and stubborn persistence of empire. Through painting, sculpture, and textile-based practices, the exhibition considers how the legacy of colonial structures deteriorates unevenly, leaving behind residues in land, language, and the body. The artists in this show trace fragmented geographies, inherited memory, and the psychic weight of history, offering refusal not just as resistance, but as ritual, care, and survival. The exhibition unfolds in tension between decay and endurance, forgetting and remembrance where the past does not stay buried, and the future remains contested.
