What gets to be remembered—and who decides?
TICK TACK is proud to present Sojourn, the first Belgian solo exhibition by Allen-Golder Carpenter.

Allen‑Golder Carpenter (b. 1999, Washington, D.C.) is a gender-nonconforming interdisciplinary artist, designer, poet, author, and activist. Drawing from rap culture, found objects, writing, film, and performance, Carpenter’s work interrogates memory, systemic violence, and cultural erasure—especially as experienced by Black communities in the United States.

Heavily inspired by Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance, Sojourn explores cycles of life, death, and reincarnation as a framework for thinking through history and the burden of its preservation. Through a critique of monuments, memory, and cultural canon, Carpenter asks urgent questions: What gets to be remembered? Who decides? And what forms can remembrance take?

Developed across three interconnected formats—a site-specific installation, a short story, and a film—Sojourn unfolds as a fractured narrative across all three levels of TICK TACK, with each element interpreting the others. This layered structure reflects the unstable nature of historical perspective, and our collective struggle to hold onto truth in the face of erasure.

With this project, Carpenter continues to challenge how we assign value to memory, and who is permitted to leave a mark.

The exhibition will be developed in part during a short residency at TICK TACK’s Antwerp studio.

OPENING NIGHT
FRIDAY JULY 25th (7-10 PM)
With a performance by the artist
TICK TACK, Antwerp

TICK TACK x SCHINKEL PAVILLON
Just five days after the opening of Allen-Golder Carpenter’s solo exhibition Sojourn at TICK TACK in Antwerp (July 25), the work travels to Berlin for a one-night film screening at Schinkel Pavillon on July 30. Presented in collaboration with 032c, the screening coincides with Carpenter’s current solo exhibition at 032c, Berlin.

Artists: Allen-Golder Carpenter