“There are seams in purgatory” is a collaborative exhibition between the five woman-identifying artists that make up Carnegie Mellon’s MFA Class of 2023: Sarah Bowling, Laura Hudspith, Rosabel Rosalind, Rebecca Shapass, and Caroline Yoo participating with her artist collective Han Diaspora Group. The exhibition is on view at Youngstown State University’s McDonough Museum of Art, January 21 through March 5.

“There are seams in purgatory,” explores the tension of betweenness as a state of both fullness and flux. Betweenness entangles the fluidity of power, the instability of control, the mistranslation of memory, and the inherent fragmentation and transformation that result in the process of becoming. This show challenges the agenda of becoming; a perpetual state of progress that is never quite realized, desired, or admired. There are seams in purgatory exists where the boundaries of identity, intimacy, and power are tested and transgressed. Engaging in a cross-disciplinary dialogue that spans sculpture, drawing, painting, installation and performance, the artists confront questions of betweenness and becoming through celebration, pain, humor, rage, and meditation.