When the Light Fades, curated by Rafael Domenech, features 12 works by multidisciplinary artist, Dennis Scholl, that explore the fragility and persistence of cultural memory. Drawing from an archive of historically resonant materials — tabloid newspapers, Civil War letters, draft cards, Olympic memorabilia, fashion ephemera, and more — Scholl constructs works that are both visual elegies and compositional meditations.

Each piece is structured in or around a dodecagon, a twelve-sided form that recurs throughout Scholl’s practice. It evokes rhythm, ritual, and recurrence — a visual architecture for time. Within this structure, the artist arranges materials that speak not only to who we remember, but how: the death of Michael Jackson on a front page; a child’s milk cap stamped with a president’s face; a promotional still from Dr. No; the joyful, untroubled image of the Kennedy family before history reshaped them.

The exhibition unfolds in three thematic movements — Public Lives, Private Loss; Paper Nation; and Quiet Carriers — each probing a different register of remembrance. In these works, Scholl treats ephemera not as discarded matter but as charged material, rich with emotional and political resonance.

As the media landscape continues to splinter and shared moments become rarer, When the Light Fades offers an act of resistance — a reassembly of moments when the world, even briefly, looked in the same direction.