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As part of a new series of exhibitions and installations in Suite 201 of the main Minnesota Street Project building, Ever Gold [Projects] presents Pen Pal, an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles based Mario Ayala. Pen Pal shadows (and in doing so, illuminates) the troubled tyranny inherent to the political and social constructs of the prison-industrial system. This history is probed through an examination of experiences of institutionalization and common representations of these experiences, and also of the intimate and tenuous relationship between institutionalized and “free” populations. …