A collage featuring vintage cars, cyclists, and a motorcyclist in a busy street scene, superimposed with photos of sunglasses, fruit, and four nude figures lined up, all in vibrant, contrasting colors.

Rachel Libeskind—

If There Be Nothing New, But That Which Is

An exhibition of large-scale works that examine the limits of legibility and visibility within mundane moments.

March 7 – August 15, 2026

In a time when we are inundated by an overwhelming amount of visual content and data, Rachel Libeskind creates work that explores how we process the mundane instances that become the context and content of our daily lives. Surrounded by constant imagery and stimulation, we often move inattentively through passive moments – such as household chores or self-grooming – on subconscious autopilot. These quiet, finite experiences become nearly invisible, passing through our minds without leaving an impression or mark. Her large-scale works deconstruct recognizable moments and reconstruct them into new visual frameworks, creating “new recollections” that bring visibility and intention to the all-too-often overlooked rhythms of everyday life.

Inspired by Jacques Lacan’s theories on visual culture and unnoticed stretches of time, Libeskind’s exhibition If There Be Nothing New, But That Which Is examines the limits of legibility and visibility within these mundane moments. Through collage and printmaking, she draws from the legacies of 20th-century artists including Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Barbara Kruger, and the Guerrilla Girls, appropriating both contemporary and historical imagery to disrupt familiar narratives.

About Rachel Libeskind

Rachel Libeskind is an artist, performer, thinker and creative director based in New York City and Berlin, Germany. Her practice is developed through building mischievous strategies to engage with images, archives, and histories. She is collecting, intervening, manipulating, juxtaposing, undermining and reconstructing visual narratives within an often-overstimulating and sometimes chaotic time in history. Libeskind’s work and performances have been featured widely internationally at notable institutions such as The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University, Alabama; Center for Jewish History, New York; Watermill Center, Long Island; Pioneer Works, Brooklyn; Bombay Beach Biennale; Künstler Bethanien Haus in Berlin, Germany; ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany; Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile; Baker Museum, Naples, Florida; Carpenter Center at Harvard University, Cambridge; and National Media Arts Festival of Lithuania, Vilnius. She has been awarded residencies and fellowships at Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Kaneohe; The Watermill Center, Long Island; Long Road Projects, Jacksonville; and in 2023 her work was featured was included in Phaidon Press’s book Vitamin C+: Collage in Contemporary Art.

A grayscale photo of a crowd and industrial buildings is overlaid with a vivid orange and yellow silhouette of a horse and rider, with bold black polka dots and abstract bars crossing the image.

A colorful collage featuring vintage cars in a lot, people riding motorcycles, duplicated images of faces, naked figures standing in a row, and abstract patterns in green, purple, yellow, and blue tones.

Three ancient Greek caryatid statues stand in front of a colorful, abstract background with a circular clock-like design and vivid splashes of yellow, pink, purple, red, and blue.

Abstract collage with a blue greenhouse background, a white square, red and green shapes resembling bird heads with black eyes, black lines, and yellow and white cutout pieces in the foreground.