One-Off Exhibitions: The Map is Not the Territory

Installation view, The Map is Not the Territory, One-Off Exhibitions, photo credit: Rich Maciejewski

June 12- July 25, 2026

The Map is Not the Territory features two new works that investigate the way knowledge is transferred.

Doppelgänger investigates how knowledge is conveyed, (mis)translated, and transformed across time, space and technology. A still life tableaux becomes a site where meaning is recognized, then reconstituted. Glass functions as both material and metaphor: reflective and elusive; it is difficult to capture digitally, resulting in distortions and voids in data. Failures become metaphors for breakdowns in understanding that shape contemporary life.

The wall piece, The Map is Not the Territory serves as an analogy for the volatility of communication and interpretation in our current moment. Instantaneous information appears concise but is often inaccurate or misaligned. Distortions occur whenever knowledge moves between systems. There is space between what is thought and what is disseminated, between experience and memory, between fact and belief. This distortion recurs in the large language models being trained today, whose linguistic biases directly reflect the gendered and racial hierarchies encoded in the vast quantities of texts they consume.

A Virtual Discussion with Glenn Adamson that took place on June 24th will be available for viewing soon.