That Which Frightens Us

David Correa Genesis Moreno Richard Moreno Luna Palazzolo-Daboul Primary is proud to present That Which Frightens Us. Nestled within an underground parking garage in Little Havana, amid a warren of studios and the exhibition space aptly named Tunnel, these four artists help shape a subterranean ecosystem where prayers meet elegies, and their collective intensity evokes historic moments when artists, working in dialogue, redefine what art can be. Through concrete, sound, image, and gesture, they reach toward the ineffable—not to resolve it, but to inhabit it, where the act of making becomes both a form of belief and a measure of faith. In pursuit of "the all-different"—lo de todo diferente, our absolute Other, that cannot be reasoned or reconciled, the infinite qualitative distinction—we turn to Vilém Flusser as a lens. He suggests that the "unarticulated" could also mean "Nature, God, or the world"—in other words, that which perplexes us and therefore frightens us into thought, into the need to articulate, to philosophize. Within this tension—between what can be expressed and what resists articulation—a space is provided where one might surface, held within these works and their shared vulnerability. Beneath it all, the human impulse to control hums like an engine: lust to perfect, desire to mechanize—where precision is its own undoing; the tighter the grip, the looser the grasp. What endures instead is the residue of touch—the tremor in the line, the hand's inevitable error—which reminds us that creation is not conquest, but correspondence. With this awareness, Primary extends these voices outward, placing this energy in dialogue with a broader audience, carrying the charge of a moment still unfolding and presenting that which remains gloriously unsettled.