we call the moon the people's wife

A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT WITH PENTIMENTI & VOX POPULI ARTISTS

ON VIEW IN PENTIMENTI’S PROJECT ROOM

Aaron Terry, Aitor Lajarin-Encina, catia colagioia, China Rain, Ella Konefal, Eva Wu,

Evan/Eve Greensweig, Jim Strong, Lane Timothy Speidel, Natalie Hijinx, and Ollie Goss.

JANUARY 30 – APRIL 4, 2026

Opening Reception & Dialogue: Friday, January 30 | 6:00 – 8:00 PM

Artist’s Dialogue: 6:00 – 6:30 PM

Pentimenti and Vox Populi are pleased to co-present we call the moon the people’s wife, a

collaborative project led by Blanche Brown, featuring Aitor Lajarin-Encina in collaboration with ten Vox Populi members.

Within Lajarin-Encina’s sparse, architecturally driven nighttime scene painting, Vox artists

contributed works that function as objects, signs, and propositions—a graphite drawing of a migraine aura, a small hand-painted flag bearing a diagram of self-alienation, and a traffic cone. we call the moon the people’s wife considers collective art-making not as consensus or uniformity, but as a negotiated collage. Each element retains its own aesthetic logic while existing in relation to the others, bound together within a single pictorial field. Can we share the same world for a while?

Part of Lajarin-Encina’s ongoing Collaborative Paintings series (initiated in 2020), this project invites artists and artist groups to create exhibitions within a painting. For this iteration, Lajarin-Encina worked collaboratively with Vox Populi members to develop an exhibition inside a painting of the empty lot adjacent to Vox Populi’s gallery spaces at 11th and Callowhill. In we call the moon the people’s wife, the lot operates as both subject and structure: a shared landscape shaped as much by what happens there as by what doesn’t.

we call the moon the people’s wife considers collective art-making not as consensus or uniformity, but as a negotiated collage. Can we inhabit the same world for a while? The project asks what it means to share space, authorship, and attention, and what remains inevitably unresolved and interrupted when people work together.

For all inquiries, please contact us at [email protected] or +1 (215) 625-9990.

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and April 3, from 5 PM to 8 PM.

HOURS: Tuesday – Friday, 10 AM – 5 PM; Saturday, 12 – 5 PM; or by appointment.

Free and open to the public.

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