I Cannot Go Somewhere Else

5 MACDONOUGH ST | NOVEMBER 8 - DECEMBER 7, 2025

REDHEAD is pleased to present I Cannot Go Somewhere Else, a multi-disciplinary show highlighting the work of contemporary artists Sinae Lee and Cyriaco Lopes. The project space will host an opening reception on Saturday, November 8, from 2-5 PM.

1.
we came across him in the park, supine on the ground, the dirt made way for his shadow. here is his body, rigid and still, a monochromatic sculpture. if he twitched or took a breath, we couldn’t see. perhaps he slept. perhaps he meditated. maybe he protested. we couldn’t say. we had already forgotten we had seen him.

the leaves were red and yellow.

2.
in remembrance of things past, adult cells maintain complete molecular memory of their embryonic origins.

3.
yellow is like red. yellow is the color of friendship and cake batter. the color of summer and new ideas. yellow is not gold. yellow is wisdom and winter hats. the healing bruise on your thigh. 

martyrs are white or blue or red, depending on their path to holiness.

gold is not yellow. gold is hoop earrings and raisins. the color of epaulettes and teeth. gold is the color of saints and threads.

4.
swim with the swimmers, wrestle with wrestlers, march in line with the firemen, and pause, listen, count.

5.
it ends with white, greek sculptures. perhaps it was a misunderstanding. that led to a fallacy. which created a false impression.

but what if it wasn’t that complicated.

what if greek sculpture was full of color, and historians intentionally scrubbed bits of paint from sculpted marble bodies, whitewashing the objects. and we accepted this. 

bright color is associated with the other, foreign, alien.

we have the power to tell the truth.

we are all aliens.

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Sinae Lee is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work is conceptually driven and centers on themes of the female body and sexuality. She has exhibited her work internationally and nationally, including exhibitions at the Delaware Center of Contemporary Art; Arti-et-Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; La Mer Gallery, Seoul, Korea; Arario Gallery, New York; Ceres Gallery, New York; Reaves Gallery, New York, and The Icebox in Philadelphia. Sinae was a 2007 Fulbright Fellow to The Netherlands. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Cyriaco Lopes is a Brazilian-American artist whose work investigates the politics of desire through a hybrid-art practice that crosses borders and is a reflection of experience. He has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro; the Museum of Art of São Paulo (MASP), El Museo del Barrio, New York; the Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris; Casa Degli Artisti, Milan, and other venues. Cyriaco has been a resident at Skowhegan, the London Project, MassMoca, and MacDowell. He lives and works in New York.