Event details

Out After Dark is an exhibition by 2025-2027 Princeton Arts Fellow Tamara Santibañez that calls attention to the bodily negotiations we make to access space within shifting landscapes of law and power, speculating on how we might rethink and remake these tacit agreements. Here, the body is referenced less through its visuality than by its presence moving through the exhibit, or the materiality of its encounter with the built environment. On display are the quotidian materials that make up the borders of the constructed world, refabricated using alternative substances. Santibañez plays with the assumed durability and duration of various building sites and objects, and alters their utility. Seemingly indestructible materials are rendered vulnerable—the bricks found here are made of glass and paper; the tough barrier of a leather jacket is made porous by a delicate glass etching lit up as if a window to elsewhere.

The exhibition title references the words of a surviving Attica brother, Carlos Roché, describing the historic 1971 prison rebellion. Roché quotes another brother, Raymond White, who told him during their takeover of the prison and their establishment of an autonomous zone in D Yard, “Man, I ain’t been out after dark in 22 years.” Within the prison, looking at the stars after nightfall is a transgressive act made possible through the collective reorganization of carceral space into a shared commons. Out After Dark takes up this provocation, revealing that in different hands, a brick can be put to other uses.

—Exhibition description by Mich Ling

Opening Reception

An opening reception will be held on September 8 at 4:30 p.m. in the gallery.

Admission

The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Gallery Hours & Directions

Open September 8 - October 16, 2026. Hurley Gallery is open daily 10 AM - 8 PM.

Get directions to the Hurley Gallery, located on the mezzanine level of the Lewis Arts complex.

On weekends, enter the Lewis Arts complex through the main Forum level entry doors located across from the Princeton NJ Transit Station/Wawa. All other entry doors are locked on weekends.

Accessibility

The Hurley Gallery is an accessible venue. The best accessible entrance to the Hurley Gallery is via the Plaza level entrance using the Arts Tower elevator (down to level M).

Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.