Sonia Boyce in Demonstrate at Queens Museum, New York

Sonia Boyce, Demonstrate: What We Want, 2026. Production still with Resistance Revival Chorus. Photo credit: Aarony Bailey
Sonia Boyce, Demonstrate: What We Want, 2026. Production still with Resistance Revival Chorus. Photo credit: Aarony Bailey

For her exhibition at Queens Museum, Boyce presents Demonstrate (2026), a major newly commissioned installation that celebrates the collective voice as a vehicle for freedom, collaboration, and social exchange.

Emerging from film and photographic documentation of two days of community gatherings at the Museum, the project brings together local organizations, educators, artists, and the Resistance Revival Chorus. Boyce invited participants to sing, speak, and move, turning these improvised encounters into multi-channel video works, kaleidoscopic wallpaper prints, photographs, and sculptural constructions.

The exhibition captures moments of celebration, commemoration, and ritual—from artmaking workshops and a Día de Muertos community ofrenda to a choral procession through the gallery spaces and into the Panorama of the City of New York.

Concurrent to the exhibition, Boyce presents Transform (2026)—a video work featuring artist Koyoltzintli performing Andean ancestral movements, screened nightly in June (2026) across Times Square’s digital billboards for Times Square Arts’ Midnight Moment.

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