Echoes of Empire - curated by Jules Seo
We invite artists to create work responding to imperialism how powerful nations and empires have shaped, controlled, and harmed others and to the enduring power of resistance. This exhibition asks: How do global power structures affect personal lives and collective histories? What happens when large systems collide with people’s desire to shape their own futures and identities?
We are especially interested in narratives of resistance, survival, and resilience. The exhibition creates space for voices often overlooked, exploring what is lost in cultures, languages, traditions and what persists through defiance. Key questions to consider:
- Who decides what history or culture “is”?
- Whose stories are amplified or hidden? How do these forces appear in daily life, yet meet resistance?
- How does memory endure and fight back?
All forms of artistic expression are welcome: painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, sound, performance, digital work, video, mixed media, or interdisciplinary projects. If your work engages with the enduring effects of empire and the power of resistance, we want to hear from you.
About the curator:
Jules Seo is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist born in Korea whose work moves across paintings and film. Drawing from themes of cultural identity, memory, and surreal everyday life, their practice weaves together rich color, intricate form, and evocative motion to uncover the poetic tensions between image and perception. Through exhibitions, screenings, and collaborative projects, they invite audiences to engage with visual worlds that are at once personal and universal.
Seo studied photography and fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Technology before pursuing filmmaking at New York University. Their work has been exhibited at the Museum of the Moving Image, the Queens Museum and the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology.