Everything is Really Everyone!
12 - 16 August, 2026
Kanishka Kanishka; Vasudev Vashisht
Curated by Sara Hodaie
Opening Reception: August 13, 2026, 6-9 PM
Lorimoto Gallery is pleased to present Everything is Really Everyone!, a two-person exhibition by Kanishka Kanishka and Vasudev Vashisht.
Where does the image begin? How, and by whom, are records made?
Everything is Really Everyone! gathers Kanishka Kanishka and Vasudev Vashisht, to consider the conditions and potentials of image-making. By engaging interspecies agencies and temporalities as active participants in the photographic process, the artists challenge photography’s legacy as a fixed object of representation produced by a sole (human) author. Reproduction, growth, weathering and sedimentation become photographic apparati, shaping images through the material uncertainties of the ecologies from which they emerge.
Questions about the stability of the photographic archive and matrilineal inheritance are “contaminated” by the metabolic activity of slime molds in Kanishka Kanishka’s living photos, which foreground the marginalization of non-human and women’s labors and the mutability of memory. Vasudev Vashisht approaches these ideas through the urban garden, a site of multispecies care and maintenance. He treats the garden as an outdoor darkroom in which organic matter, soil, and compost shape exposures.
For both the artists, photography becomes a means of entering into the relations which the image is meant to record. Moving beyond a logic of capture, the photo becomes an evolving ecology: an unstable ecosystem in which agency is distributed and memory is transformed and contested. Everything is Really Everyone! asks what becomes possible when the boundaries between subject, medium, and artist become increasingly difficult to maintain.
Bio - Kanishka Kanishka is a New York City-based Indian visual artist who explores interspecies collaboration and ecological entanglement as ways to reimagine archives, kinship, and knowledge. She received her MFA in photography from Parsons School of Design (New York, New York) in 2025. Her works have been exhibited at Woman Made Gallery (Chicago, Illinois), Vinzenz Wien (Vienna, Austria), Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery (New York, New York), BAXTER ST at CCNY (New York, New York), Photoville (Brooklyn, New York), Lishui Photography Festival (Lishui, China), Elizabeth Street Garden (New York, New York), and Jaipur Art Week (Jaipur, India). Her photography and writings have been published in Back Matter, Rukhmabai Initiatives, and Columbia Journal. Kanishka has shared her research through artist talks at Tyler School of Art and Architecture (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art (Paris, France), and Society for Photographic Education's 2026 annual conference (Atlanta, Georgia). She is also a recipient of the En Foco Artist Fellowship 2026.
Bio - Vasudev Vashisht is a socially & ecologically engaged visual artist of Indian origin based in New York. Vashisht’s work has been exhibited by the New York Foundation for the Arts, CreateCOP29, Photoville Festival, and Baxter St, Camera Club of NY and internationally, by Jaipur Art Week, India & Lishui Photography Festival, China. He is pursuing a Van Lier Fellowship at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center, NY and was recently awarded the En Foco Artist Fellowship & NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Program Fellowship. Vashisht has shared his artistic research at the MASS MoCA, Society for Photographic Education annual conferences, and Urban Soil Institute NY, among other venues. He holds an MFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design, NY. When not covered in soil or darkroom chemistry, he is trying to convince airport security that the soil-filled bags in his luggage are ‘art supplies.’
