Please join us on Thursday May 7 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at the Minnesota Museum of American Art for the Opening Reception of What Holds and What Breaks: 2024 McKnight Visual Artist Fellows

What Holds and What Breaks explores fragility and strength in contemporary society through the work of Rachel Breen, Sophia Chai, Dahn Gim, Alison Hiltner, R. Yun Matea and Chris Rackley. These artists delve into how social, perceptual, ecological and technological systems shape our lived experiences. Through research-based and materially driven practices, they examine instability, contradiction and collapse, while also envisioning new ways of sensing and connecting. Together their practices offer a meditation on fragility and resilience, inviting viewers to pause, reconsider the conditions we inhabit and imagine what else might become possible when the familiar breaks apart.