Exhibitions

The Soul Selects Their Own Society is an exchange exhibition between Photographic Resource Center and Behind VA Shadows. Bringing together artists working across lens-based and interdisciplinary practices, the exhibition considers interiority as both a personal and social condition: how can art become a vehicle for investigating individuality, private identity, intimacy, and emotional interior worlds while also acknowledging the public systems we move through daily?

The works in the exhibition approach interiority expansively through figurative, architectural, objective, documentary, and abstract forms. Some artists reflect on warmth, domesticity, memory, and relationships as spaces of refuge and self-recognition. Others examine the tensions between inner life and public existence, asking what must be concealed, performed, or set aside in order to function within larger social, cultural, and institutional structures. Rather than defining interiority as a fixed psychological state, The Soul Selects Their Own Society approaches it as an ongoing process shaped by labor, migration, care, solitude, observation, and lived experience. The exhibition invites viewers to consider what allows a person to know themselves more deeply, and how private emotional landscapes continue to shape the ways we encounter one another in public life.

This show is co-curated by Behind VA Shadows’ 
Yolanda He Yang, Founder and Lead Artist 
Shelby Feltoon, Curatorial Lead

Exhibition Dates: Jun 19 – July 26, 2026

Opening Reception: Friday, July 17th, 6 – 8 PM