Karryl Eugene American, b. 1998

Exploring interiority over surface, Black Mans Shadow Work reflects on ideas such as W.E.B. Du Bois’ notion of “double-consciousness,” reframing what contemporary art by Black men can reveal beyond stereotype or defense. Karryl Eugene examines malehood, introspection, and sociology through layered compositions drawn from images of video games, all-white parties, film stills, and celebrity culture, interrogating intimacy, status, and spectacle. Hall’s new series Untitled (Body/Count), introduces what he refers to as a “subject-system” whose cycles of integration and ejection unfold within the friction of emergence, with futurity as the sole site of equilibrium. Together, their works articulate a language of Black art that moves past familiar ties to trauma or representation, instead privileging interior voices that resonate with nuance, persistence, and a re-imagined horizon.