Character Development | Co-presented by KADIST — Opening Reception @ Minnesota Street Project Foundation

Art Bae Event Link & Fridays, 3-7pm Saturdays, 12-6pm Minnesota Street Project Foundation and KADIST are pleased to present Character Development , a group exhibition that brings together six video installations, each featuring the artist on-screen in different guises and roles. Calling upon cinematic history through citation, reinterpretation, and critique, the artworks in the exhibition address contemporary social issues ranging from consumer culture to feminism, treating characters—in all their instability—as both structure and strategy. Artists: Sophia Al-Maria, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Sara Cwynar, Alex Da Corte, Beatrice Gibson, Martine Syms Public Programs Out of Character , a reading Thursday, September 17, 7pm Exhibition Warehouse, 1201 Minnesota Street Free and open to the public An evening of short readings, connecting six writers’ personal perspectives as a way of decoding the layered meanings of the artworks in the exhibition Character Development , followed by a discussion moderated by Joseph del Pesco , KADIS T Americas Director. With readings by Dodie Bellamy , Deena Chalabi , Shona Mei Findlay , Elena Gross , Glen Helfand , and Heidi Rabben . AY NO SE , a performance by Sofía Córdova Friday, October 23, 7pm Exhibition Warehouse, 1201 Minnesota Street Free and open to the public As part of the Character Development exhibition, artist Sofía Córdova will stage a multi-screen, multi-sound performance of “ideas that cul-de-sac, then eddy, swirl up and swirl down, tornado, evanescent hurricane." Through video, sound, and text, Córdova and a constellation of accomplices will trouble our notions of self and other. Artist Biographies Sophia Al-Maria (b. 1983, Tacoma, WA; lives and works in London, UK) is an artist, writer, and filmmaker whose practice spans video, installation, drawing, and speculative fiction. Together with Fatima Al Qadir, she coined the term "Gulf Futurism" to describe the hyper-consumerist, dystopian conditions of contemporary Gulf life, and her work has since expanded to examine orientalism, resource extraction, colonial authority, and suppressed futures through the lenses of science fiction and horror. Her films move between myth and reportage, often drawing on her experience moving between the United States and Qatar. In 2023, she had a solo exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, and in 2025 she was awarded the Frieze London Artist Award, for which she staged a daily stand-up comedy performance inside the Frieze tent. Korakrit Arunanondchai (b. 1986, Bangkok, Thailand; lives and works in Bangkok and New York, NY) makes videos, paintings, and installations that move fluidly between autobiography, spirituality, and geopolitical history. At the core of his practice is a narrative-based video work structured as an ongoing film series, populated by friends, family, and alter egos, drawing on Buddhist animism, the Anthropocene, and a post-human sense of collective grief. His 2021 twin films Songs for dying and Songs for living wove together footage of the 1948 Jeju Massacre, Thai pro-democracy protests, and the death of his grandfather. A major solo exhibition, Sing Dance Cry Breathe , was presented at Museum MACAN, Jakarta (2024–25), and his work appeared in the 14th Taipei Biennial (2025) and 36th Bienal de São Paulo (2025). A comprehensive monograph of Arunanondchai’s work, Songs for Living / Songs for Dying , was published in 2023. Sara Cwynar (b. 1985, Vancouver, Canada; lives and works in New York, NY) works in photography, film, and installation, building dense archives of advertisements, catalogues, and found imagery to examine how consumer culture shapes desire, gender, and value. Her layered compositions borrow the visual grammar of design and marketing, to expose the systems of control embedded in everyday images. A two-part solo exhibition, Sara Cwynar and Sara Cwynar: Alphabet , drawing on the structural logic of Aby Warburg's image atlas opened at ICA Boston in 2025. That same year…