Summer Exhibitions Closing Reception
August 23, 2025 | 5-8pm
Location: Slash (1150 25th St, Building B, San Francisco)
Free event
To celebrate the closing reception of our summer exhibitions, As Long as the Earth Endures and Lagrange Point, Slash invites you to a screening and three performances by exhibiting artists and special guests. We will also be marking the launch of a commissioned essay on Lagrange Point by David A.M. Goldberg, which will be available to read online. Drop in and stay for as long as you’d like, no RSVP is required!
5:30pm | Screening of Visions of Phosphine Earth by Wendi Yan
Visions of Phosphine Earth explores the visual and metaphysical imaginings of a research-based fictional planet harboring life in its sulphuric clouds. The meditative, nonnarrative short film emerges as a journey between fiction and science, macro-landscape and micro-imaging, revealing the unbelievability of life’s existence beyond terrestrial constraints. This exclusive screening follows the film’s premiere at the Berggruen Institute and Yan’s receipt of the 6th Hyundai VH Awards Grand Prix.
6pm | Interpreting Clouds by Santino Gonzales
A dust devil of guitar loops and field recordings swirl in Santino Gonzales’ live performance of Interpreting Clouds. VHS tapes of UFO documentaries and weather systems blur while Gonzales composes sonic landscapes through improvisation and radio static.
6:45pm | Groom by Jasmine Zhang
With a handmade dry bamboo broom—common in China for its effectiveness in sweeping outdoor areas—artist Jasmine Zhang will explore sound and space in the Slash gallery. Zhang’s new performance responds to Nancy Nguyen’s /room/ exhibition As Long as the Earth Endures, which explores connections between the act of painting and Buddhist philosophy.
7:15pm | Inverted Aurora by Whit Forrester
This piece explores the human body as a receptive site for the dense field of technological frequencies that now saturate it. Through movement and sound, this performance investigates the relationship between connection and fragmentation in a world shaped by invisible transmissions and feedback loops.
Whit Forrester is a U.S.-based artist working between San Francisco and New Orleans. They hold a BA in Environmental Studies and an MFA in Photography. Their practice explores power, queerness, fringe and anomalous phenomena, and the transcendent. Drawing on historical research, intuitive practice and scientific inquiry, they examine the electromagnetic relationships among organisms as a form of worldmaking. They currently serve on the Advisory Council for the Museum of Contemporary Photography and are a member of the Ninth Planet collective.
Santino Gonzales is an artist from Los Lunas, New Mexico. His multimedia works draw on elements of ufology, adobe, and radio to explore feelings of connection across space and time. Gonzales’ art practice reveals throughlines between technology, land, and the unknown. His work positions these modes of cultural analysis within their broader legacies of resilience, resurgence, and wonder. Gonzales received his BFA from the University of New Mexico & his MFA from California College of the Arts. He is a Dedalus Fellow and has exhibited work internationally.
Wendi Yan is an artist, technologist, and writer narrating metamorphoses of the scientific self. She examines the cosmological, linguistic, and physiological challenges in facing alien epistemic systems across time and crafts alternative fictions of science and its history through CGI films. She was an inaugural Steve Jobs Archive Fellow and a finalist for the 6th VHAward.
Jasmine Zhang is an interdisciplinary artist living between Oakland and Suzhou. Through making and unmaking and learning and unlearning, Zhang sees art as a tool able to borrow, fuse, question, and integrate current social, cultural, and language constructs. The artist currently likes to crochet, write, and improvise on voice synthesizer. She has shown work domestically and internationally, including in Milan, London, San Francisco, and Chengdu, and has worked with The Lab, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, California College of the Arts, and Duke University.