Charles Campbell’s Breath Portraits at Wil Abelle Gallery

This exhibition reception will be for Charles Campbell’s Breath Portraits, a series that transforms the intimate act of breathing into collective portraits of Black vitality.

Working with community members, Campbell records breaths and translates them into large-scale spectrograms—images that function as both personal traces and shared archives. In the wake of the Black Lives Matters movement—which has foregrounded the precarity of Black breath—Campbell turns the narrative toward survival, resilience, and renewal. The works are haunting in their beauty but also profoundly political: breath here becomes a form of testimony, resistance, and continuity.

Opening reception: November 13 from 6pm – 8pm