KNOWLEDGE IS MYTH: CHIMERIC CONTINUITIES

October 1, 2026 – December 13, 2026
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (Harvard University)
24 QUINCY STREET
CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138

Contemporary art gallery showing ceramic sculptures and videos, Knowledge & Myths: Chimeric Continuities exhibition view
Installation image of Knowledge is Myth: Chimeric Continuities. Courtesy of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard. Photo: Julia Featheringill

Installation image of Knowledge is Myth: Chimeric Continuities. Courtesy of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard. Photo: Julia Featheringill

Knowledge Is Myth: Chimeric Continuities features works by four artists and collectives Enzo Camacho & Ami Lien, Candice Lin, Cole Lu, and AYDO (Ayoung Yu & Nicholas Oh) that complicate the binaries of mythology and knowledge, and their constructs. The title Knowledge Is Myth plays off the phrase “knowledge is power,” popularized by Sir Francis Bacon in the late sixteenth century at the height of the European Enlightenment, globalization, and religious conflict. Drawing from diasporic as well as chimeric and hybrid subjectivities, these works reconfigure colonial hierarchies of being that separate human and nonhuman realms, while embracing what decolonial writers Walter Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh describe as an ecology of knowledge informed by non-Western epistemologies, carried through myths and the power of storytelling.