Phantom Body: Paradice Palase x GLORIA’S

To feel is to remember. To remember is to resist. 

Phantom Body brings together contemporary women-identifying artists who invoke ideas of soft power, psychic space, and embodied memory. These works are not only representations of bodies but also traces of what remains after rupture, after silence, and after erasure. Borrowing from the medical phenomenon of phantom limb syndrome — the sensation of presence despite absence — the title becomes a metaphor for emotional and political haunting.

The works in this exhibition whisper, mend, and reclaim. They speak through mark, thread, and gesture. Each piece is an act of self-repair, a testament to interior strength, and a response to what has been lost, denied, and fragmented  — yet still felt. At a time when bodily autonomy and the rights of women, queer and trans people, and other marginalized communities are being stripped away, Phantom Body offers a quiet but unyielding refusal. It honors bodily care as resistance, absence as presence, and fragility as force.

The exhibiting artists are Adina Andrus, Alissa Polan, Carol Paik, Caroline Heffron, Christy E. O’Connor, Diana Jean Puglisi, Jennifer Tazewell Mawby, Jessica Soininen-Eddis, LaThoriel Badenhausen, Melanie Brewster, and Tina Lam.

May 10 – June 1, 2025

Gloria’s Project Space

5 Eldrige St.

NY, NY 10002

Opening Reception: May 10, 6 – 9 pm

Hours: Thursday and Friday 1-7 pm, Saturday and Sunday 12-6

Installation view. Photo by Kat Ryals.