The Warehouse
April 4-June 28, 2026
Bedford Library in NYC
Open April 4th-June 28th, The Warehouse is a collaboration between artist and writer Vic Liu, Interrupting Criminalization co-founder Mariame Kaba, and the Brooklyn Public Library. With a full-branch exhibition takeover, the project transforms the library into a space for public imagination and learning, inviting patrons of all ages to explore what a world beyond incarceration could look like.
The Warehouse is a site-specific installation expanding upon Liu’s book The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Incarceration, co-written with James Kilgore. The library will be covered with more than two dozen new, full-scale paintings by Vic that examine resistance and survival inside prisons; the emotional and political distance between “inside” and “outside;” and what abolition might look like in practice. The exhibition is spatially divided into two sections:
The Children's Wing will include visual work and information design imagining abolition on the outside: care, safety, and accountability beyond punishment.
The Adult Wing will feature histories and practices of resistance on the inside, grounded in lived experience and collective struggle.
The exhibition runs through June 28 and is open to visit when the library is. Extensive programming will accompany the exhibition.
Please join us on Saturday, April 4 at 1:30 PM ET for the opening reception and a panel at Bedford Library! Check out the exhibition website for other programs and for more information.
