This Too Is A Threshold
Exhibited at AUTOMAT Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 1 November 2025 - 29 November 2025
In an attempt to mend the rift generated by the dominant cultural understanding of the hero, the membership of Vox Populi present This Too Is A Threshold, a group exhibition testing the gold weight of the narrative monomyth*–where the understanding of myth itself returns to its roots–where it is not understood as something which is singular, fantastical, or untrue, but instead understood as the emergence of inherited and collective truth.
Myths, in their original sense, are about what matters most to us in this world, where we can touch the timeless imagery and archetypes from which the living world arose. What does one heart beat sound like reverberating through the body of an assembly? What of intimacy and dispute, of hurt and repair? What of the largeness of collective liberation? What can we make of departure, or of return? What do we make of all the thresholds and choices in between?
This Too Is A Threshold serves as one half of a collective swap between AUTOMAT Collective and Vox Populi. Both artist-run spaces will be exhibiting the work of their members at each other’s respective gallery spaces in Philadelphia. The Vox Populi exhibition at AUTOMAT was organized by Catia Colagioia.
*Monomyth: The monomyth, is a universal narrative template describing a hero's adventure into a supernatural world to achieve a decisive victory and return transformed. Identified by Joseph Campbell in his book “The Hero With A Thousand Faces,” it's a common pattern in myths and stories across cultures, involving stages like the departure, the initiation, and the return.
The exhibition features works by Aaron Terry, Catia Colagioia, Ella Konefal, Eva Wu, Eve Greensweig, Gregory Donell Parker, Jim Strong, KT Pe Benito, Lane Timothy Speidel, Lea Devon Sorrentino, Melissa Langer, Raúl Romero, & Yuheng Shao.
Photos above taken by Catia Colagioia, and edited by Ella Konefal.
work pictured: ‘touching the other side (it is the restraint)’
surplus
Exhibited at Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 5 September 2025 - 12 October 2025
Artist talk available at this link.
‘surplus’ welcomes the eight newest members of Vox Populi: catia colagioia, China Rain, Ella Konefal, Eva Wu, Kat Nzingha, Liam Paris, Logan Cryer and Ollie Goss. The octet creates art with accumulated materials, whether they be paperwork, dreams, memories, fears or junk. The resulting hoards are presented with impending empathy. Viewers are asked to consider what is the stuff that we are really made of and what can be done with all the rest.
Video above by Ross Pannebecker.
Photos above by Catia Colagioia.
works pictured: cradle for a new dawn chorus, study for the cradle, artifact i & ii, project delay i & ii, watched / watching (though chainlink), gut feels gut knows gut tells, & everything will continue, everything will change.
Low- Tech
Exhibited at Huddle, Philadelphia, PA, 13 March 2025 - 25 March 2025.
The exhibition assembled work from fourteen artists working in a variety of media. Many works are made from recovered materials, such as construction debris, unaccounted data from modern image processing, image transfer negatives, and the electronics inside of a broken insulin pump. Others display a panoply of technological methods and outcomes such as antique electronic phones, handmade electronic instruments, bone conduction, hand-altered film for motion pictures, and low powered devices. The curation of pieces in the show is an offering to indulge in the tension held by the premise of Low Tech.
The show included work by: Catia Colagioia, Charlie Manion, David Rios, Francesca Lally, Gregory Kramer, Hannah Tardie, Jamison Mead, Jazmyn Crosby, Kelly Chen + Caleb Chase, Logan Crompton, Maddie Brucker, Noah Kernis, Ollie Goss, Rachael Henson, and Cristian Varela. Curated by Hannah Tardie & Ollie Goss.
Photos above by Catia Colagioia.
works pictured: construction elevator.
Photos above by Calvin Leon.
works pictured: construction elevator.
stand/still
Exhibited at Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery, Philadelphia PA, April 3 - 14, 2024.
Photos above by Anna Neighbor.
works pictured: construction elevator, monument, a line to not cross, artifacts (series), photosynthesis (post-mortem), & elegy.
SPORTS!
Exhibited at Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery, Philadelphia PA, November 2023.
Photographs by Michael Heath.
works pictured: to know not what you need, funeral object (to not believe in goneness), i put my heart down on the county line, girl at play, splint structure/nest #1, artifact 1, & don’t let anything get to you.