At This Table: A Monument Lab Residency Exhibition marks the culmination of the 2025 Monument Lab Residency, presenting new monumental prototypes by Philadelphia-based artists-in-residence Nazeer Sabree and Levester Williams. The exhibition’s title, drawn from Joy Harjo’s poem “Perhaps the World Ends Here,” centers the kitchen table as a site of gathering and exchange, where we come to understand who we are and how we connect to one another.
Working through different methods and mediums with Monument Lab collaborators and community partners, both artists’ prototypes converge on inheritance—illuminating how memory and material pass from one generation to the next, how presence and absence at this space of gathering shape our identities, our communities, and our understanding of the world. Their prototypes celebrate the possibilities of what a monument can be: at once deeply personal and powerfully collective, rooted in place while reaching toward wider conversations about identity, community, and care.
This exhibition invites audiences to consider the kitchen table not only as a site of nourishment but also as a monument in its own right. Visitors are encouraged to reflect on their own experiences of gathering, remembering, and imagining new futures together.
At This Table is on view November 7th-December 13th, 2025 at Heim Center for Cultural and Civic Engagement at the Parkway Central Library.