Tending to What Remains

24th annual Being Scene – Curated Exhibition
Presented by Workman Arts

Xece/Khadija Baker, Anna Williams, Shannon Taylor-Jones, Nadine Hajjaj, and Jawa El Khash

September 4 – October 5, 2025

In times of rupture, care often begins with what the body remembers—scent, soil, texture, breath.

Tending to What Remains is a multidisciplinary group exhibition that reimagines the gallery as a living garden: a shared ecosystem of care. Set within Workman Art’s Being Scene 2025, it explores how artists with lived experiences of displacement, intergenerational grief, or mental health struggles turn to organic and everyday materials such as herbs, cotton, hair, wax, paper, and sound, to reflect on trauma, recovery, and community resilience.

Guided by diasporic, feminist, and ecological ways of knowing, Tending to What Remains gathers the work of Xece/Khadija Baker, Anna Williams, Shannon Taylor-Jones, Nadine Hajjaj, and Jawa El Khash. Together, their works create a contemplative space that explores themes of memory activism, collective tending, and the everyday rituals that sustain us.

Photography by Henry Chan.