2026 Exhibitions - Southwestern Illinois College
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2026 Exhibitions

Robin Assner-Alvey – The Body Residual

January 26 – February 18

Robin Assner-Alvey’s work explores the body and womanhood through personal experience. Created using an experimental image-transfer process, her current series of disjointed self-portraits examines maternal ambivalence and the physical and emotional toll of motherhood, capturing the exhaustion and unpredictability of caregiving and self-navigation.

Kristoffer Johnson – To Which We Return

January 26 – February 18

Kristoffer Johnson’s work confronts impermanence and the fragility of the human body, drawing on the Buddhist concept of Maranasati, “mindfulness of death,” and the Western tradition of Memento Mori. Using the alternative photographic process of mordançage to erode and distort his images, he mimics bodily decay, underscoring the inevitability of mortality.

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