Exhibition Walkthrough and Listening Session with Johanna Hedva
Join us on Saturday, October 24 at 4pm for a walkthrough of Gravity, My / Favorite Enemy with artist Johanna Hedva.
Gravity, My / Favorite Enemy is Johanna Hedva's first institutional exhibition in New York. Bringing together time-based installation and video, newly produced sculptural wall paintings, and a large-scale kinetic sculpture, the exhibition composes an erotics of gravity, asking what beauty becomes when decay is not resisted but allowed to run its course.
Following the walkthrough, Hedva will lead a listening session of tracks from their 2021 album Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House. Mystical doom, hag blues, confrontationally pure, the album is a solo electric guitar and voice performance that is as much a cathartic grief purge as it is a droned-out metal colossus that summons the holy spirit.
Image: Johanna Hedva: Gravity, My / Favorite Enemy, installation view, the Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA), New York, 2026. Photo by Zach Hyman.
Programs are free and open to all with RSVP encouraged.
Approximate program duration: The exhibition walkthrough will last 45 minutes (with time for questions), followed by a brief break, and a 20 minute listening session.
Please note that your RSVP does not guarantee entry. Admission is on a first come, first served basis (even for those who have registered) and will be limited to the capacity of the venue. We encourage RSVPs to gauge interest in our programs.
We ask that visitors stay home if they are feeling sick or have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 10 days. Testing before joining us at CARA is recommended. Masks will be available for free.
The closest wheelchair accessible subway is the 14th Street/8th Avenue station. The entrance to CARA is ADA-compliant, and our bookstore and galleries are barrier free throughout, with all-gender, wheelchair accessible restrooms. CARA has wheelchairs available for guest use. Please request one in advance via bookstore@cara-nyc.org. Service animals are welcome.
