Every Time I Conjure A Stone I Throw It exhibition posters

The posters for the exhibition Every Time I Conjure a Stone I Throw It at Sol Koffler Gallery were designed using the typeface Roumald and were designed by Andrea Mato.

From curator Marley Trigg Stewart:

To look through a lens is to break something open. For the 2025 iteration of RISD’s Photography Graduate Biennial, Every Time I Conjure a Stone, I Throw It, MFA candidates turn photography from a means of observation into an instrument of transformation. The title, drawn from Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, evokes the power of intentional release and return—a dual act that reverberates through the artists’ practices.

Across the exhibition, image making becomes a means to fracture, reassemble, and reimagine inherited worlds. These artists work through and against material memory, which include the textures of time, familial history, faith, and the shifting landscapes where these moments take place. Ultimately, we are asked to reconcile how photography continually remains contradictory—how do we point to a moment that has already left us? Whether through intimate gestures or expansive terrains, the works gathered here suggest the notion of seeing goes beyond the surface area of an image. These artists are conjuring new futures—breaking them open and beginning again.

Featuring photographers: Alexa Nikkol Curran, Elliott Golden, Elysia Perkins, Jake Benzinger, Jessica Chappe, Kyle Dong, Lola Owett, Nji Tuma, Renee Cornue, Tomorrow Chapman, Victoria Pépin, Virginia Hanusik, Wen Zhang, and Wenhan Hu