EBONY/CURATED is pleased to present Nothing Has Been Whole For Some Time, a group exhibition on show at our Loop Street gallery.

There are moments when the world stops holding together in the way we expect it to. Time slips. Edges blur. What seemed singular begins to double, to echo, to layer. The familiar remains, but it no longer settles into place. This quiet unravelling marks the threshold at which surrealist impulses take hold, shifting perception from the external world to the interior terrain of the self.

Bringing together artists from across the diaspora, ‘Nothing Has Been Whole For Some Time’ explores fragmentation, interiority, and the shifting boundaries of perception through contemporary surrealist approaches. Quiet, as an inevitable part of being human, becomes the condition through which these impulses emerge, not as resistance, but as vulnerability and exposure. It is within this interior space that realities shaped by memory, mental health, care, and history take form.

Across varied and intuitive practices, the works hold multiplicity without requiring resolution. Here, grief is not exceptional but embedded in everyday life, both routine and resistant. These practices do not seek to stabilise meaning; instead, they rework memory and gesture toward forms of continuity beyond loss.