The things that stayed is the continuation of an ongoing dialogue between alejandro t. acierto and Dan Paz. Often moving in parallel motion, their work and research traces the non-linear opportunities of photography to shape the expanded conditions of capture. The things that stayed conflates contentious framings of the shower and the archive that seek to fix unstable histories entangled in the weaponization of resources. Throughout this work, they illuminate the tensions and complications of holding and touch where the shower and the archive become slippery institutional spaces understood as multivalent sites of access and foreclosure, where preservation becomes a troubled site to ask “what is it that we are preserving?” Together, these artists gesture toward the citational possibility of architecture that remains.

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