A Different State is a group exhibition by visual artists Benjamin Kendall, Brandon English, and James Hopper. Assemblage, sculpture, painting and performance are presented as a collective confrontation. These offerings, improvisations, and responses to defined territories are used as tools for turning the gallery into a space of reciprocal activation. Individual art practices mediate our collective experience while audience interactions complete the work. Recreating memory through what is present, possible, or absent; A Different State recognises then reevaluates nuances of erasure, transformation, existence, and resistance. The artists question empire, influence, authority, territorial reclamation, and their own positions in time. A Different State is both a cause and consequence that challenges viewers' beliefs of fundamental freedoms through remediated shifts in our awareness and becoming.

Benjamin Kendall is a poet and noise maker from Atlanta, Georgia living in Brooklyn, New York. Concerned with the reconnecting, rediscovery, and the reclaiming of stolen space, time, and histories; his work is there to resist with a radical responsibility and reevaluation of how history is remembered as an artist making sound, disruptions, situations of seeing, and language.

Brandon English is an interdisciplinary visual artist interested in counter-surveillance archival practices and how they intersect with vestiges of vernacular image making, tool making and democratized imaging technologies (cellphones, dslrs, surveillance cams etc.). Additionally his work broaches the various lineages of African American object performance by way of instrument building and sound performances.

James Hopper is a painter working with portraiture and landscape to address questions of other/kinship, the radical extension of empathy, and how representation can interrogate the fundamental assumptions that shape our world.