Body Grounds: The Intimacy of Memory, Myth, and Loss brings together Lauren Cohen, Stephanie Santana, Jacob Olmedo, and Pacifico Silano—four past artists-in-residence at Ace Hotel, presented through our recent year-long co-curatorial partnership. These artists’ practices examine how personal narrative, identity, and cultural memory are shaped by systems of power, trauma, and resilience. Through humor, mythology, materiality, and loss, each artist navigates and investigates the body as a grounding site—where intimacy is in flux and memory is both a burden and a place of resistance.
