This exhibit is a collaboration between artist and writer Vic Liu, Interrupting Criminalization co-founder Mariame Kaba, and the Brooklyn Public Library.

With a full-branch exhibition takeover, The Warehouse transforms the library into a space for public imagination and learning, inviting patrons of all ages to explore what a world beyond incarceration could look like. 

The Warehouse is a site-specific installation expanding upon Liu’s book The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Incarceration, co-written with James Kilgore. The library will be covered with more than two dozen new, full-scale paintings by Vic that examine resistance and survival inside prisons; the emotional and political distance between “inside” and “outside;” and what abolition might look like in practice.

The Warehouse closes with a community fair featuring art, music, and tabling from abolitionist organizations including VOCAL-NY, RAPP, Parole Prep Project, and NYC Books Through Bars, alongside a market of goods made and sold by formerly incarcerated people.

Where? Bedford Library, 496 Franklin Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238

When? Saturday, June 27 / 11:00 AM — 4:00 PM