Lamont Gallery

Phillips Exeter Academy
11 Tan Ln., Exeter, NH
(603) 777-3461
gallery@exeter.edu
exeter.edu/lamontgallery

January 2–March 7: Jeffrey Augustine Songco: Society of 23’s Conservatory is an immersive, site-specific installation that creates a multisensory experience. Songco captures the look and feel of a greenhouse, as he invites visitors to deeply explore themes such as friendship, perfection, non-native, and “origin stories.” The greenhouse becomes a backdrop to Songco’s campy exploration of a complicated relationship between his identity as an American of Filipino ethnicity and the colonial American behavior of collecting “exotic” plants during the U.S. rule over the Philippines. Reservations required.