Heads
27 September, 2025 – 8 February, 2026
Arts and Letters, New York
Curated by Noa Wesley
As the exhibition continues to unfold, Dillon attempts to answer that question with the anticipatory temporality of a poet. With Heads, she finds ways to let instability endure. By constructing works with natural materials that resist permanent cohesion, Dillon ensures that temperature, humidity, and gravity will exert their inevitable force. They will transform throughout the show just like anything else in this world, which is destined to age and die and morph into something other than itself. In Dillon’s hands, that decay is a prismatic, many-sided mirror.
Excerpted from Wesley’s essay in the pamphlet, including a checklist, in ENG / SPA
Throughout the show, Dillon sent small works, poems, and ephemera through the postal service to members of the public who signed up, extending her exhibition beyond the walls of the Arts and Letters Library.
71°67’55.4”94°06’40.2”25: X, 2025
Sapele mahogany, glass, resin, and molasses
33 × 13.5 × 26 cm
Sapele mahogany, glass, resin, and molasses
33 × 13.5 × 26 cm
71°67’55.4”94°06’40.2”25: VIII, 2025
Sapele mahogany, glass, resin, and molasses
33 × 13.5 × 26 cm
Sapele mahogany, glass, resin, and molasses
33 × 13.5 × 26 cm
71°78’10.6”23°52’17.3”25: III, 2025
Sapele mahogany, glass, resin, and soil
34 × 13.5 × 26 cm
Sapele mahogany, glass, resin, and soil
34 × 13.5 × 26 cm
a ground space, 2025
Molasses, resin, ink on paper, and sapele mahogany frame
Molasses, resin, ink on paper, and sapele mahogany frame
Goodbye, Christ, Langston Hughes, n.d.
Originally published in The Negro Worker, November–December 1932.
Archives of the American Academy
of Arts and Letters
Originally published in The Negro Worker, November–December 1932.
Archives of the American Academy
of Arts and Letters
71°78’10.6”23°52’17.3”25: IV, 2025
Sapele mahogany, glass, resin, and soil
34 × 13.5 × 26 cm
Sapele mahogany, glass, resin, and soil
34 × 13.5 × 26 cm
71°67’55.4”94°06’40.2”25: XI, 2025
Sapele mahogany, glass, resin, and molasses
33 × 13.5 × 26 cm
Sapele mahogany, glass, resin, and molasses
33 × 13.5 × 26 cm
71°67’55.4”94°06’40.2”25: IX, 2025
Sapele mahogany, glass, resin, and molasses
33 × 13.5 × 26 cm
Sapele mahogany, glass, resin, and molasses
33 × 13.5 × 26 cm
71°67’55.4”94°06’40.2”25: XII, 2025
Sapele mahogany, glass, resin, and molasses
33 × 13.5 × 26 cm
Sapele mahogany, glass, resin, and molasses
33 × 13.5 × 26 cm
Photography: Charles Benton / Daniel Terna