Containment: New Works by Alice Proujansky | Reception

Exhibition: November 11 – December 9, 2026. 
Opening Reception: 5 – 7pm on Wed, Nov 11
Main Zero Gallery
Containment uses photographs of children and quilts to look at motherwork, play and psychological formation. Beloved toys, art objects, imaginative play: transitional objects emerge from the tension between internal experience and shared reality. Charged with meaning, dependent on context, they let children, and artists, negotiate between inner and outer worlds. Alice Proujansky is a photographer based in New York City. Her photobook, Hard Times are Fighting Times (Gnomic Book, 2023), uses archival and documentary images to look at the legacy of radical activism in her family. It was shortlisted for a 2024 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award and the Rencontres d’Arles Author Book Award, and was selected for exhibition through Baxter St’s Mid-Career Artists Initiative.