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Sperone Westwater is pleased to announce The Shape of What You Lived, on view from 26 June through 1 August 2025. Borrowing its title from Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem Remembrance, the exhibition brings together artists who transform diaristic practice and personal record into visual form through text, texture, material and mark.  Artists included are Francesco Clemente, Todd Gray, Hayv Kahraman, Jitish Kallat, Byron Kim, Guillermo Kuitca, Richard Long, David Lynch, Christopher Myers, Bruce Nauman, Peter Sacks, Kyungmi Shin, Kevin Umaña and William Wegman.

On the first floor, works examine …