Friday, July 24, 2026 | 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Location: Residency Unlimited, 360 Court Street (main green church doors), Brooklyn, NY 11231 (map)
Island Boundaries is a collaborative endeavor that brings together Carol Priego, 2016 RU alum Sean Wang (Wang Cheng-Hsiang), Juan Miguel Marín, and Matthew Logan to explore the idea of the island as both a physical place and a metaphor for human connection. Through photography, installation, sound, and performance, the exhibition reflects on the visible and invisible boundaries that shape our relationships with landscapes, histories, and one another.
Carol Priego presents Imaginary Island, tracing the history of a vanished island in the South Bronx that was once home to the region’s last native prickly pear habitat. Through its transformation into the Freedomland amusement park, Bay Plaza Mall, and later the world’s largest cooperative housing development, Co-op City, the project explores how places are continually reshaped by power, memory, and imagination.
Sean Wang presents a project that revisits his search for a child he met during his residency in New York in 2016 at Residency Unlimited. What began as a personal journey has evolved into a reflection on the ethical and emotional boundaries of memory, photography, and representation.
This event is further activated by an immersive sound installation by Juan Miguel Marín, created from field recordings gathered trying to trace the perimeter of the former island, and live cello performances by Matthew Logan, whose compositions explore themes of isolation, mental health, and emotional resilience. Together, the four artists create an environment to experience boundaries not as fixed divisions, but as spaces of encounter, transformation, and shared reflection.
ABOUT
Sean Wang (Wang Cheng-Hsiang) is a photo-conceptual artist born in Taipei, Taiwan. As a visually impaired photographer, his work delves into the construction of vision, exploring the boundaries between the visible and the invisible, and between art and non-art. In recent years, his work has focused on post-conceptual photography, institutional critique, and common technology
Carol Priego (b. Spain) is a visual artist and educator whose practice explores how images shape collective imaginaries and our relationships with territory, ecology, and memory. Through photography, installation, and experimental image-making, she creates participatory projects that examine visibility, belonging, and the interconnectedness of bodies, landscapes, and social systems.
Matthew Logan is a New York composer, cellist, and photographer. He works with multi-media, and in the merging of the visual and musical. Current projects include photographic alternative-process printmaking, and the development of a string quartet
Juan Miguel Marín (b. Ecuador, 1980) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His artistic practice explores the experiences of migration through a constellation of diaristic gestures, proposing a sensitive inquiry into the relationship between identity, memory, and belonging. Informed by migrations, his work articulates a constant negotiation between the self and the other, between presence and remembrance.
This initiative is made possible through RU’s continued support to its artists alumni, both local and international.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
