Companion April 9 - May 9, 2026 Mary Helena Clark Aya Fujioka Jin Mei Gordon Parks Quay Quinn Wolf Curated by Alex Ito Gern en Regalia is delighted to present Companion , a group exhibition curated by Alex Ito featuring works by Mary Helena Clark, Aya Fujioka, Jin Mei, Gordon Parks, and Quay Quinn Wolf. In Companion , the artists attend to the nearly imperceptible threads that bind us to the material world- where narratives splinter, difference binds, and memory incubates through cycles of forgetting and reemergence. Meaning does not arrive fully formed or with the intention of complete understanding. It withholds and accumulates relationally. Across the exhibition, materials and methodologies range from found objects and repetitive gestures to publication and unstaged photography, resisting the spectacle of rendering a world into seamless representation. Rather than fabricating a world into being, these approaches embody the amorphous mechanics of experience, where meaning accrues slowly, relationally, and without guarantee. These practices ask for modes of attention grounded in proximity and companionship with an outer world. As technology increasingly anticipates language and shapes behavior before individuals can consciously articulate themselves, the space for indeterminacy narrows. The everyday risks becoming overdetermined, pre-scripted, and frictionless. To engage these works is to rehearse openness for ambiguity; to encounter artworks as undefined invitations rather than recommendation engines. In doing so, Companion gestures toward a world expanded not through clarity, but through intimacy, pause, and the generative potential of not yet knowing.

Quay Quinn Wolf. What is it that I have, that makes me feel your pain, like milking a stone… 2026. 14 x 8 x 1.5 inches. Hand-stitched milk and essential oil-washed lamb hide