March 9—April 5, 2026

This exhibition features a collection of images on attention guest-curated by Adam Green, Editor-in-Chief of Public Domain Review, an image archive exploring curious and compelling works from art history that have fallen into public domain. Building on eight historical images on attention circulated to the Friends of PDR in time with SoRA’s book launch of Attensity!, Green introduces “loops” for this exhibition. Four sets of eight images revolving around empty centers explore how different cultures and practices have situated attention at the interface between the self and the world: through hands, eyes, and the psyche.

At the end of 2025, eight images on the theme of “attention” were selected and circulated to the Friends of PDR in time with SoRA’s book launch of Attensity!. Each image not only portrays a specific model or problem of attention, but also choreographs our attention by extending the world within its four edges into our own. In turn, each makes its own claim on 

how images complement human perception in attending to the world. In some, necks, shoulders, and eyelids strain to grasp the ordinary, while others seem to master the workings of nature with calm ease and revel in the fantasy of scientific objectivity. There, we will find foreshadowings of the instrumentalized attention that organizes today’s attention economy, as well as worldviews that have already been hinting at its alternatives. 

On an adjacent wall, image “loops” rethink modern conventions of visual presentation that foreground seriality and order. Although organized around themes of “eye,” “psyche,” “hand,” and “poodle” from left to right, the relationship between images and these concepts continue to shift as we make our way around the loops—and returning to where we started, the first image as we initially perceived will no longer exist. They can be viewed as grids with empty centers, analogies that begin with a word and slip into imagistic metaphors, or cycles without beginning nor end. Left to speak for themselves without the aid of captions, these images thread the endless return of attention in human history—repetitions, similarities, analogies, and convalescence between countless moments of our shared experience and study of attention. 

Contributors

Organized by the Strother School of Radical Attention

Artists: Adam Green and Public Domain Review

Resident Curator: Haena Chu