Baker—Hall is pleased to partner with Oolite Arts on an exhibition entitled, Transit Memory, featuring a selection of artists from Oolite Arts’ 2025 Studio and Live.In.Arts Residencies. Co-curated by Baker—Hall & Gabi Di Giammarco “Transit Memory” brings together four artists—Sepideh Kalani, Diana Larrea, Ana Mosquera, and Zonia Zena—and is on view January 10—February 22, 2026.
Transit Memory considers how identity is constructed, negotiated, and reassembled across shifting cultural, political, and geographic terrains. Through photography, video, technical drawing, embroidery, ceramics, and porcelain sculpture, the exhibition approaches memory as an active process and transit as both condition and material. Each artist examines systems that shape selfhood—bureaucracy, migration, censorship, and inherited traditions—revealing how belonging and autonomy persist under conditions of displacement and uncertainty.
Anchored in Miami, a city defined by diasporic movement and layered histories, the exhibition reflects on the immigrant experience as a continual balancing act between resilience and surveillance, personal agency and institutional constraint. Across the works, lived experience intersects with larger governing frameworks, highlighting the tension between interior life and external structures that regulate visibility, legitimacy, and recognition.
Sepideh Kalani’s multidisciplinary practice draws from Persian visual traditions, neuroscience, and ceramics to explore embodied selfhood shaped by histories of censorship and communal negotiation. Diana Larrea’s lens turns inward, examining domestic space, family archives, and inherited memory to reflect on loss, return, and the fragile architecture of home. Ana Mosquera interrogates bureaucratic systems through technical drawing and mapping, reframing administrative spaces—waiting rooms, checkpoints, and documents—as sites where identity is suspended and remade. Zonia Zena’s photographic and embroidered works reconnect human presence to the natural world, tracing cultural memory through landscapes marked by care, continuity, and resilience.
Together, the artists in Transit Memory propose identity not as a fixed state, but as something continually formed through movement—across borders, systems, and time itself.
Baker—Hall is a contemporary art gallery founded by Amanda Baker—Hall in 2024. It is the successor to her previous project, Club Gallery. The gallery aims to promote emerging and mid-career artists through a fresh curatorial approach, while also offering comprehensive art advisory services. Baker—Hall specializes in painting and sculpture across narrative and non-objective styles, with a focus on collaborating with private collectors and prominent corporate institutions. The gallery boasts a robust exhibition schedule, featuring a minimum of eight rotating exhibitions each year.
