Friday, January 30, 2026 - 6:00pm

Pentimenti and Vox Populi are pleased to co-present we call the moon the people’s wife, a collaborative project led by Blanche Brown, featuring Aitor Lajarin-Encina in collaboration with Vox Populi members Aaron Terry, catia colagioia, China Rain, Ella Konefal, Eva Wu, Eve Greensweig, Jim Strong, Lane Timothy Speidel, Natalie Hijinx, and Ollie Goss.

Within Lajarin-Encina’s sparse, architecturally driven nighttime scene painting, Vox artists contributed works that function as objects, signs, and propositions—a graphite drawing of a migraine aura, a small hand-painted flag bearing a diagram of self-alienation, a traffic cone. we call the moon the people’s wife considers collective art-making not as consensus or uniformity, but as negotiated collage. Can we share the same world for a while?

Part of Lajarin-Encina’s ongoing Collaborative Paintings series (initiated in 2020), this project invites artists and artist groups to create exhibitions within a painting. For this iteration, Lajarin-Encina worked collaboratively with Vox Populi members to develop an exhibition inside a painting of the empty lot adjacent to Vox Populi’s gallery spaces at 11th and Callowhill. In we call the moon the people’s wife, the lot operates as both subject and structure: a shared landscape shaped as much by what happens there as by what doesn’t.

Within Lajarin-Encina’s sparse, architecturally driven nighttime scene, Vox artists contributed works that function as objects, signs, and propositions—a graphite drawing of a migraine aura, a small hand-painted flag bearing a diagram of self-alienation, a traffic cone. Each element retains its own aesthetic logic while existing in relation to the others, bound together within a single pictorial field.

we call the moon the people’s wife considers collective art-making not as consensus or uniformity, but as negotiated collage. Can we inhabit the same world for a while? The project asks what it means to share space, authorship, and attention, and what remains inevitably unresolved and interrupted when people work together.