touch and accuracy
work by Rex Delafkaran, Ricardo De Lima, Akim Farrow and Mohabbat Khatibnia-Mansouri
July 5 – 27, 2025
on view Sundays
11 a – 2 p
Opening Reception
Saturday, July 5th
4 – 7 p
Join us in celebration of the opening of Rex Delafkaran, Ricardo De Lima, Akim Farrow and Mohabbat Khatibnia-Mansouri’s exhibition, touch and accuracy.
touch and accuracy is a participatory installation based on the form and logic of bowling. Each artist fabricates a unique set of pin-like sculptures in materials such as ceramic, wax, wood, and metal. Installed as a 100-piece field and paired with four custom balls, the exhibition invites change, strategy and public engagement in our spin on the iconic pastime.
The project continues our collaboration under sad at sports, a framework for reimagining the cultural, political and aesthetic stakes of athletics. Through gestures of competition, ritual and erosion, we examine sports as a field of collectivity and control. Touch and accuracy proposes sport not as escape, but as structure – a contested space where hierarchy, care and failure materialize.
Rex Delafkaran – Interdisciplinary artist and dancer from California exploring futility, tenderness, and late stage capitalism through performance and sculpture. Her work investigates queer, Iranian-American, and feminist lineages through language and form. Exhibitions include the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum, Panoply Performance Lab, and Satellite Art Fair. Delafkaran is the recipient of a Warhol Foundation Wherewithal Research Grant, and the Danhausen Award for Sculpture. She earned her MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
@rex_delafkaran
Ricardo De Lima – Colombo-Venezuelan artist and abolitionist working with sculpture, sound, video, and experimental software to explore sociocultural systems of power. His work has been exhibited at ICA Boston, NMMA Chicago, Carpenter Center, and the Havana Biennial. He co-curated Pico Picante and Spectacle Boston and received the James and Audrey Foster Prize. Currently pursuing an MFA in Sculpture at SAIC.
@ricardo___delima
Akim Farrow – Mixed-race Black artist working in steel and found metal to investigate identity, myth, and memory. His sculptures create spaces for collective story-building through industrial materials. By transforming raw materials, he explores the tension between destruction and repair within the Anthropocene.
@blacksmvth
Mohabbat Khatibnia-Mansouri – Iranian artist based in Chicago using clay to develop a sculptural language grounded in social practice and support. Their work transforms fragility into material form. Recent projects include Fentanyl Crisis (sound and color; i) and Can’t Catch (support system), using ash and incense as metaphors for collapse and care.
@mohabbat.mansouri