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One of One (Group Show)
ABRI MARS is thrilled to present One of One, a group exhibition curated by Aaron Stern featuring photographic works by Daniel Arnold, Juan Brenner, Mike Brodie, Mark Borthwick, Rebekka Deubner, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Barbara Ess, Jerry Hsu, Shaniqwa Jarvis, Irina Rozovsky, Gray Sorrenti, and Mario Sorrenti. Marking the gallery’s one-year anniversary on the eve of New York Fashion Week, this exhibition confronts the ceaseless proliferation of image-making at a time when online syntheticity holds sway, alternatively offering to engage with photography as a material object.
In One of One, curator Aaron Stern asks us to reconsider the photograph as more than an image—a physical object that demands to be experienced in person. In an era where most pictures exist digitally, viewed fleetingly on screen before disappearing into an endless scroll, this exhibition calls for a return to presence and materiality.
Photographs today often live as detritus, stored on our phones and in the heap of the internet, stripped of their physicality. This collection of works pushes against that trend, celebrating the photograph as an object that carries weight, texture, and story that cannot be fully conveyed through a screen.
The works in One of One include Polaroids, prints, collage, and photograms, demonstrating the richness of engaging with photography in its tangible form. Polaroids, with their instant and singular nature, offer intimacy and immediacy; prints, demanding closer inspection, evoke a sense of quiet discovery; collage, with peripheral elements such as handwritten notes, creased paper, or torn edges; and photograms, expressing the delicately powerful nature of light as a physical medium, reminding us that photographs are as much about the context of their creation as the image itself.
This exhibition is an invitation to experience photographs as they were meant to be seen: in person, where their material presence and physical nuances resonate. It is a call to value photography as more than a fleeting digital record, to re-engage with its potential to preserve, provoke, and endure. In doing so, One of One underscores photography’s role not only as art, but as an artifact of human connection and memory.