In selecting and bringing this work together from New York Foundation for the Arts’ 2025 immigrant artist cohort—we were drawn to work of stark and quiet defiance. The works in ‘More-than-human’ evoke power and myth. Hanging on the ropes of the boxing ring, walking slowly across a city street, washing tenderly in a bathroom, suspending a single chokeberry–they summon the gravity and lightness of impermanence. These twenty-one artists, working in a variety of mediums, share the untold/told lore of birth, family, tradition, land, and challenge the structures that police existence. - Curators Abril, Banyamerian, and Castro.