The Curated Fridge Winter 202 – Harvard Square

Behind VA Shadows, in partnership with the Harvard Square Business Association and Intercontinental Management, is happy to welcome The Curated Fridge Winter 2026 Show, the newest set up on the 25/8 artspace situated at 2 Linden Street in Harvard Square.

Behind VA Shadows presents this group present which is on view by way of March 29^th. Created by Yorgos Efthymiadis in 2015, The Curated Fridge is an exhibition undertaking that celebrates fantastic artwork images and fosters connections throughout the neighborhood by exhibiting {photograph} works on the fridge at Efthymiadis’s home. Its Winter 2026 Show is curated by Disparate Projects, an artist collective based by Lisa Beard, Micah McCoy, and Vann Thomas Powell devoted to the photographic curation. The Curated Fridge Winter 2026 Show travels to the gallery house of Behind VA Shadows, showcasing the works of artists Andrew Bailey, Annemarie Deckers, Arthur Hunking, Aubree Lourdes Guilbault, Bell Beecher Pitkin, Brynne Quinlan, Cathy Cone, Chuck Davis, Dafna Steinberg, Dan Borden, Dany Vigil, Elizabeth Wiese, Erica McKeehen, Harry Knight, Jake Corcoran, Jane Waggoner Deschner, Jeff Smudde, Jessica Gianna, John English, Jose Carrasquillo, Josephine Bidoli, Kate Albright, Ken Rothman, Laura Noel, Lexi Howard, Lilan Yang, Lisa Tang Liu, Liz Potter, Matt Fortin, Maureen Bond, Mickey Lee, Skip Williams, Susan Isaacson, Vahid Valikhani, and Yi Cynthia Chen.

Denise Jillson, govt director of the Harvard Square Business Association, commented, “We are so thankful to Intercontinental Management for continuing to foster the arts in the public way.  This popup gallery exhibits beautiful and thought provoking artwork that is to be enjoyed ‘from the street’ in an unexpected location in Harvard Square.”

Courtesy by Behind VA Shadows

Disparate Projects’ curation began with an open name with the theme “instant permanence,” reflecting on the phantasm of permanence within the digital age. Drawing on the paradoxical high quality of images, the curatorial collective turns the emphasis to its materiality, the place “its creation is an act of rebellion against the fleeting and the digital.” Turning away from the immateriality of the digital, Disparate Projects facilities the moment format which is prescribed with imperfection and the quotidian. Within this curation, Disparate Projects identifies the frequent threads of thriller rising from it, the place tough edges of unintended patterns are unconcealably seen, contrasting the precision and intentionality of photographers. Moving past the particles of chemical compounds, the cutoff frames from a roll of movie, and the cracks of emulsion, the exhibited works create a robust narrative high quality, asking viewers to assume by way of the lacking items and surprise concerning the full tales behind the captured moments. Within the gallery house, the occasion of the fridge turns right into a pair of mini fridges, the place their black surfaces proceed to function the background for the images, in addition to extending onto the gallery wall. 

Courtesy by Behind VA Shadows

The exhibition marks Behind VA Shadows’s persevering with path to collaborate and share house with different DIY artwork initiatives, following final yr’s pop-up collaboration with Shelter In Place Gallery run by Eben Haines and Delaney Dameron. According to Yolanda He Yang, founding father of Behind VA Shadows, “I’ve felt a strong need to connect DIY art projects and artist-run spaces with one another as a way of collectively responding to the long-standing, highly institutionalized art landscape in the Greater Boston area. Rather than existing in parallel, these spaces have so much potential when they are tied together.” Over the previous decade, The Curated Fridge has been cultivating a vibrant neighborhood surrounding lens-based media and working towards images curation, which for Efthymiadis is commonly a really tactile, unfastened, and enjoyable course of. 

The “takeover” of Behind VA Shadows gallery by The Curated Fridge attracts on many shared pursuits, resembling imagining the choice modes of sharing artwork. As steered by Yang, “the collaboration made visible something that was already there: a shared ecosystem of care, labor, and artistic practice that just needed a place to converge.”