But It Was Something About Living

A Collaborative Installation

Isabella Gamez, Maya Rampel, Marin Carr-Quimet, Fig Hendrick

November 11 - 22, 2025

Reception: Friday, Nov 21st | 6-8P

More About But It Was Something About Living

The collaborative installation, But It Was Something About Living, explores the bodily process of digesting grief and how this innately personal experience can become communal. The work is an ongoing conversation between the collaborating artists and a practice in coalition building. The work explores parallels between digestion and processing, between the bodily and the communal, and between material and emotional costs. The installation consists of relics of community gatherings, shared practices, and of exercises in building and brainstorming where we should go from here.

More About the Artists

Isabella Gamez is a printmaker and painter floating between North Carolina and Connecticut. Her work focuses on disease, its relationship with the body, and influences from public health. 

Learn more about Isabella here

Maya Rampel is a multimedia visual artist and designer based in North Carolina. Their practice centers on fluidity between mediums and the recombination of familiar elements into new forms.

Learn more about Maya here

Marin Carr-Quimet (they/he/she) works and lives between Asheville, NC and Chapel Hill, NC. They received their BFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2024, and like to focus on collective and collaborative work. Their work is heavily based in material and the built environment. 

Learn more about Marin here or follow them on IG@marin.c.q

Fig Hendrick is a mixed-media artist based in North Carolina. He approaches his work through the themes of death, consciousness, and hope.