Bienniel
The 2025 Mississippi Invitational: Call Home
The 2025 Mississippi Invitational, curated by TK Smith and dubbed Call Home, opens with a title wall graphic that incorporates a landline phone dangling, as if abandoned by its user. The white handset—hanging loosely by an orange spiral cord, forever suspended somewhere between connection and disconnection, sets a quietly poignant tone for the exhibition. It also poses a question: Do you make the call?
Nicole Eisenman: Fantastic Worlds
Yeah, there’s definitely a lot of self-portraiture. Even the work that doesn’t look like self-portraiture is self-portraiture. My father is a psychiatrist, and a part of our dialogue together is analyzing the inner lives of various artists, how their unconscious thoughts show up in their work. Those conversations taught me to look at my work in the same way. It’s similar to analyzing a dream. It’s so interesting to me.