Arcanite Pictures was started to highlight emerging artists, emphasizing the personal narrative angle and diaristic storytelling in photography. Through online features and group shows, a library of small personal projects began to build, and, excitingly, as more people were invited to share their work, a lineage and an echoing formed, discoveries were made, and the distance between people diminished as a web of connections was established. The pictures shared constituted a language, and a portal to the various practices now joined across different cities, subcultures, and decades-old archives. For Oracle in the Aperture, artists were selected to join with peers, personal influences, and emerging lens-based artists to amplify and enhance each other’s stories, emphasizing interpersonal and private relationships and the talismanic ability of photography to illuminate familial and gestural scenes.

-Brian Van Lau

Exhibiting artists: Walker Bankson, Bryan Birks, Marisa Chaftez, Luis Manuel Diaz, Paloma Dooley, Hannah Edelman, Ryan Frigillana, Sabrina Giacomaggio, Stephen Ross Goldstein, Phoebe Shuman Goodier, Jasmine Huang, Jeffrey Jin, Tommy Keith, Ian Kline, Joe Leavenworth, Jinyong Lian, Chika Winston Ma, Jordan Monloire, Ricardo Nagaoka, Pete Pin, Ian Ritter, Dylan Safranek, Ian Sherlock Molloy, Ian Edward White, Kevin Williamson