Our Days, Like a Shadow (a non-abiding hauntology) — Julie Mehretu

Marian Goodman Gallery is pleased to announce our seventh solo exhibition by Julie Mehretu titled Our Days, Like a Shadow (a non-abiding hauntology), which will include new and distinct bodies of work from 2024-2026. Presented for the first time in the U.S., a prelude to this body of work was seen in the exhibition Ensemble at Palazzo Grassi in Venice in 2024, and Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory at MCA Sydney in 2024-25. Referencing “our days, like a shadow” from Chronicles 29:15, and the Buddhist concept of “non-abidance,” the show’s title augurs life as a series of fleeting and transitory experiences, and existence as a passing shadow in search of enlightenment when walking in darkness. Mehretu explores these metaphors in conceptual and temporal terms, channeling abstraction as a vehicle of liberatory imagination, in her new cycle of Black Paintings, 2025-26 and in her recent collaboration with sculptor Nairy Baghramian, TRANSpaintings/Upright Brackets, 2023-26.