Exhibition Opening April 4
an imagined place (here and now)
Satpreet Kahlon
Exhibition Dates: April 4 – May 23, 2026
Gallery Hours: Thursdays 2:00 – 8:00 PM, Fridays 12:00 – 6:00 PM, Saturdays 12:00 – 4:00 PM
Location: PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 4, 3:00 – 5:00 PM
PICA is proud to announce an imagined place (here and now), a multichannel audio and visual installation by the Brooklyn-based artist Satpreet Kahlon.
A 2022 Creative Exchange Lab artist, Kahlon’s exhibition will transform PICA’s 10,000-square-foot main space into an immersive exploration of fugitivity, deep space time, geologic memory, and possibility. A newly composed soundscape, both orchestral and intimate, threads through the installation, blending otherworldly registers to collapse distance between planetary time and lived embodied experience.
The exhibition centers a full-scale replica of 2025 PN7, a quasi-moon that has been following the Earth’s orbit since the 1960s, but only discovered by NASA in 2025. PN7 becomes a jumping off point for the artist to continue her investigation into the memory of nonhuman entities, including light rays and geologic entities (such as mountains), the Earth, and asteroids.
Kahlon’s replica of PN7 is a 65’ x 80’ structure made from almost exclusively recycled materials, including styrofoam, wood, and cardboard. The work explores a fiction in which PN7 encounters and falls in love with the Earth during its travels through outer space. The quasi-moon then begins to follow the orbit of our planet, secretly watching and storing memories like time capsules within the rocky confines of its body. As PN7 observes the relationship between the Earth and Moon, it becomes hopeful that somewhere in the universe, there might be a planet for it to love and be loved by. Through this fiction, Kahlon explores fugitivity as a form of survival, unrequited love, the power of geologic time and deep space memory to teach us lessons about perpetual apocalypse, and the hope for a just environmental future.
Click here to learn more about this exhibition, and save the date for the exhibition opening on Saturday, April 4, 3:00 – 5:00 PM.