Katana King, Exhibit: Eat the Meat. Leave the Bones.
A provocative contemporary exhibit grappling with hypervisibility and invisibility—being overpoliced yet overlooked—through sharp social critique and identity-driven themes. Gallery-style viewing and conversation in an intimate downtown arts space.
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