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Use Value 
April 18th - May 17th 2026
PRP & Jessamine, Dallas, TX


“Use Value” brings together artists who treat the human figure as a contested image. One shaped by desire, power, and the politics of looking. Across painting, photography, and moving image, the works approach portraiture as something unstable: bodies are staged, fragmented, fetishized, or reclaimed, revealing how identity is constructed and circulated through visual culture.

Presented during the Dallas Art Fair, the exhibition constructs a generationally layered conversation around the body as both subject and battleground. By bringing historically influential practices into proximity with emerging voices, the project underscores how the politics of representation continue to be renegotiated through the image of the human form.

Robyn Aspen
Darja Bajagić
Krissy Bodge
Brianna Capozzi
Allen-Golder Carpenter
Alex Curington
Luna Gardiner
Pope.L
Sam Lipp
Ren Light Pan
Adrian Piper
Valentina Vaccarella
Willa Wasserman
David Wojnarowicz