Sunday, January 25, 2026

3:00 – 5:00 PM

Footnotes Towards a Finnisage: A talk with Johanna Monk and Juf

To celebrate the end of The Clock Wife, two estates will sit side by side on the final day, to further present the artists at the centre of all their efforts:

Johanna Monk on Vanita Monk
What becomes of an artist duo when one of the artists is dead, no longer actively contributing to the partnership? How to curate an estate that is still a living body of work? Besides discussing the artworks shown at the exhibition, Jnohanna Monk will also be sharing a glimpse of the extensive archive of Vanita’s visual and other work, and unpacking how her engagement with this living archive has become central to her own artistic practice.

A poetry and sound session with Fran Herndon and Juf
Juf will present the life and work of the late Fran Herndon (1926–2020) through a sound and poetry archive that brings her practice into dialogue with contemporary and historical voices. Of Native American origin and a key yet underrecognised figure of the San Francisco Renaissance, Herndon forged a singular exchange between poetry and visual art, working through collage, abstraction and figuration shaped by the Bay Area’s postwar and atomic imaginaries. This sonic-poetic journey reactivates Herndon’s work for the present, placing it in conversation with voices including Nathaniel Mackey, Lou Cornum, Geo Wyeth, Rizvana Bradley and Denise Ferreira da Silva, Joanne Kyger, Robert Duncan, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, S*an D. Henry-Smith, Cedar Sigo, Dalia Taha and Christopher Wagstaff—collectively generating a renewed narrative around her painting.