nostalgia is the ghost of care
a solo exhibition by huiyin zhou 徽音

On view: March 4 - March 29, 2025
at Golden Belt Gallery, 800 Taylor St. Durham, NC 27701

Programming Dates: Opening Reception and Artist Talk: March 8, Sat 6pm

Slow Art Tour with Gail Belvett: March 16, Sun, 3pm

Third Friday Reception:
March 21, Fri, 6-9pm

Gallery closure: March 25-28
Swing into Spring: March 28

Nostalgia often denotes a past tense: a sense of sentimental or wistful longing for things, memories, and objects that are already gone. But for huiyin, nostalgia rests in the future: they archive and rescue moments as they are happening, predicting the grief that will come after they disappear. Beyond an irrecoverable loss, how can nostalgia’s tender teachings enable us to recognize the uniqueness of each moment while it is still here? Weaving photo prints, polaroids, handwriting, and other ephemera, this body of work draws from the artist’s daily encounters in BIPOC/Queer communities. Rooted in queer and feminist sensibilities, nostalgia is the ghost of care explores photo archiving as an active form of grief and care work. It provides a memory sanctuary amidst the hauntings of loss, erasure, and structural violence.


This is a 2024-25 Durham Art Guild artist in residence project.
Graphics designed by huiyin zhou and yanki kung. 

Note: the title is inspired by Andy J. Pizza’s comic on nostalgia and gratitude in the Invisible Things project.