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For our exhibition Transition of Power: 2025, we debuted Claudio Eshun's Green Card Series, which explores the artist's immigration status through the process of creating a "digital negative," a method by which images are converted into grayscale in programs like Photoshop or Illustrator, and then printed onto physical objects. Originally from Ghana, Eshun has been distorting and printing different versions of his work-authorization cards while asking himself the question, what does it mean to be an alien? "If that’s how I’m categorized," Eshun wrote in 2025, "how can I reclaim and reshape this narrative into something empowering?" Eshun has since continued to explore and expand his series. In its latest iteration, he has created free-standing sculptures of these digital-negative reproductions.
One of Eshun's photographs (left) was recently acquired and is featured in the encyclopedic exhibition Framing Nature: Gardens and Imagination, on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, through June 28, 2026. Eshun is in good company, among Monet, Sargent and Hokusai. Keep an eye out for Gallery Director Caitee Hoglund's review of the exhibition in the coming weeks.
Left: Claudio Eshun, Untitled (Our Family's Garden) (2/10), digital archival inkjet print
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