CAMPOSCURO

E.E.E. [Everything Ends Eventually: Precious Objects for Eschatonic Times] is an exhibition that asks what it means to reckon, often prematurely, with mortality. When confronted with finitude, the human impulse is to gather, to cling, and to assign value. Objects become anchors: vessels through which memory, identity, and survival are negotiated. Though we cannot take anything with us, we continue to collect and protect material traces as if they might preserve us, or allow us to be remembered.

Within this framework, defining becomes an act of survival. Objects are labeled precious, irreplaceable, charged not merely by ownership but by narrative. They tether us to existence at moments when loss feels imminent and time unstable. In E.E.E., possession is less about accumulation than about belief: belief that memory can be held, that stories can be fixed, that meaning can outlast disappearance.

Since the beginning of time, artists have served as storytellers and questioners, assigning significance to things and testing the limits of meaning. This impulse takes on heightened urgency in a contemporary moment marked by dystopian anxiety and pervasive “eschatonic” thinking. The artists gathered by R+R Collective share an obsessive attention to objects that hold personal, symbolic, or emotional weight, transforming them into charged sites of reflection and resistance.

Edison Peñafiel participates in E.E.E. with Camposcuro, a work that explores tension between illumination and obscurity, presence and erasure. Through material restraint and symbolic compression, Camposcuro engages the exhibition’s central questions by examining how meaning emerges in the space between what is revealed and what is withheld. The work functions as both artifact and threshold, aligning with the exhibition’s meditation on memory, fragility, and existential weight.

E.E.E. invites visitors not only to view the works, but to actively participate, through public programming and by contributing a small, personally meaningful trinket of their own. The gallery becomes a shared site of contemplation, where the collective futility and necessity of these human pursuits can be held in tension.

Artists: Rina AC Dweck, Juan Pablo Garza, Genesis Moreno, Richard Moreno, Julia Norton, Edison Peñafiel, Rachel Klinghoffer, Megan Solis, Kate Stone, Victoria Shaheen, and Armando Zamora.

R+R Collective’s collaboration emerged from their 2019 residency at Millay Arts, where a shared devotion to sculpture and an aligned approach to life sparked a lasting partnership. E.E.E. marks their inaugural collective project and reflects their commitment to fostering community through the merging of artistic worlds.

E.E.E. (Precious Objects for Eschatonic Times) is generously supported by an LMCC Creative Engagement Award.