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Shelter Gallery and Lauren Powell are pleased to present Well, Maybe Next Year, a solo exhibition by Benjamin Cabral exploring nostalgia, memory, and trauma. This is Cabral’s third solo show with independent curator Powell.

In Well, Maybe Next Year Cabral examines the romanticization of the past and the unreliable nature of memory by transforming the gallery into an ice rink, an imagined space such as the ones in which his mother, a former competitive figure skater, would perform. The floor is strewn with the flowers and stuffed animals that are tossed into the rink following a routine and …