The Vera List Center for Art and Politics presents Owed to a Certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium in collaboration with Avni Sethi, recipient of the 2020–2022 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice, at the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, Parsons School of Design, The New School, 66 5th Avenue, New York, from October 9 to 24.

Inspired by Conflictorium, a museum of conflict Sethi founded in 2013, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat India, the exhibition environment in the Aronson Galleries has been conceived to be a space for pause, presence, and emptiness to reflect on Conflictorium as a practice. Ten years into instituting and infrastructuring Conflictorium, the artist has requested a self-directed (rather than pandemic-imposed) pause to reflect deeply on the potential of cultural organizations to address conflict and an expanded notion of “infrastructures” for such work.