The Anderson and VCUarts are pleased to announce A System Of Exceptions, an exhibition of artwork by Halima Bachir-Bouiadjra, a double major student in Sculpture + Extended Media and Philosophy of
Science, class of 2028. The exhibition features an installation centered on a recreated hole in the wall and a
“fruit fountain,” constructing a parafictional space where distance, depth, and time become
unstable. Drawing loosely from Zeno of Elea’s distance paradoxes, the work uses humor and
spatial illogic to undermine orientation and causal logic. Originally staged in an apartment using
sound to extend the illusion of space, the project was later restaged in the Murray DePillars
Building, where each iteration references and reconfigures the last, folding the work into its own
temporal paradox.
The exhibition will be on view from August 28th – September 12th, 2026, with an opening reception on Friday, August 28th from 5-7pm.
The Anderson is closed for summer break! Join us for our first receptions this fall on August 28th.
