Passion for the Void

PASSION FOR THE VOID
OLIVIA DRUSIN & KAY KASPARHAUSER
9/18/25 - 10/19/25

Grounded in Clarice Lispector’s legacy as a madame of the void, this dual presentation reads The Hour of the Star, and The Passion According to G.H. as a curatorial framework. In one, an encounter with a cockroach collapses the distance between matter and meaning. In the other, a life is staged within the skeletal apparatus of the city. Lispector turns language inside out to reach what exists behind perception; the show extends that maneuver towards the abyss.

Olivia Drusin engages the psychological dimensions of public and private space through a rigorous perceptual lens. She turns to municipal mechanisms that choreograph life: a revolving door, an elevator. Treated as austere rites of passage, the scenes read as purgatories shaped by policy and the intimacy of habit.

Permeability forms the grammar of experience in the void.

Kay Kasparhauser approaches mortality and metamorphosis as a method of care. Illness becomes a pedagogy that sharpens contact with the divine. The insect is index and screen, articulating layers of container anxiety. In the eradication script of the spotted lanternfly, Kasparhauser deepens her inquiries into how institutions manage affect & insidiously infiltrate collective anguish.

Bodies creating space:::porous boundaries.

In Agua Viva (Stream of Life), a stream of consciousness novel experimentally architected in 1973 between Passion According to GH and Hour of the Star, Lispector meditates:

“I am at this instant in a white void awaiting the next instant. Measuring time is just a working hypothesis. But whatever exists is perishable and this forces us to measure immutable and permanent time. It never began and never will end. Never.”