Tribeca, New York
Syd Krochmalny
A Hard & Soft Poem for the Night
Locker RoomThe Locker Room is thrilled to present our next exhibition with Argentinian artist Syd Krochmalny, A Hard & Soft Poem for the Night. Krochmalny is an Argentine artist working across painting, installation, performance, and text. His work explores the intersections of power, desire, and language, examining how aesthetic form operates within contemporary systems of value and visibility. He is the founder of The Slip, an artist-run space in New York City focused on critical perspectives from the Global South. He holds a PhD in Social Sciences and completed postdoctoral studies at Columbia University. Krochmalny—whose work has been presented at institutions including Museo Reina Sofía, the Guggenheim Museum, and Harvard University—arrives with a new body of paintings developed after a summer in Berlin. In the city’s clubs, he found a temporary suspension of bodily rhythms—schedules, transactions, productivity—less an escape than an interruption within a culture of perpetual availability and algorithmic visibility. What emerged was a different kind of social space, where collective experience superseded individual identity. Krochmalny calls this Carnal Resonance—a working proposition in which desire becomes structure and painting becomes its material trace. He began painting during the days, not to document these nights, but to maintain the physical state they produced: a pressure that refused to dissipate, that demanded continuation through material means. “Every painting is proof that something survived the night,” Krochmalny writes. “And that something still wants to speak, even if it has no words.”