SoMad

Mad World 2025
Queer Ecologies

Zulu padilla
Amina gingold
david anaya maya

Mad World artist-in-residence Zulu Padilla presents a multimedia installation of large-scale photographic collages tracing the migratory patterns of neotropical birds, as seen from cruising spots in Prospect Park. In these hidden pockets of urban wilderness, birds and queer communities converge—fluid, borderless, and untethered by fixed identities.

Amina Gingold: New York-based photographer, filmmaker, and bookmaker exhibits a series of photograms—camera-less images created by placing objects on light-sensitive paper and exposing them to light—made in collaboration with the Alice Austen House.

David Anaya Maya: The series of paintings explores the interconnections between peoples, cultures, identities, symbols, and ecosystems—ranging from organs and bodies to sexes and species—to retell the mythologies embedded in our collective psyche.