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The word ‘Salon’ has multiple meanings: a beauty salon, a parlor room, a group exhibition. During the Enlightenment, Salons were social gatherings where artists, writers, and thinkers would gather to discuss new ideas. In the 19th-century, the Paris Salon assembled top artists into a single exhibition, while the Salon de Refuses (show of rejects) platformed the rebellious painters who would eventually leave a lasting historical legacy. Beauty salons are spaces for intimate, somatic exchange, existing on the cusp between the private and the public. How do all of these definitions intersect? As Peach Pit Gallery welcomes its first resident hairdresser, Maggie Gaster, it opens an opportunity to reimagine how a gallery can function. Salon/Style brings public intimacy into the gallery, positioning a live, working hairdresser alongside a group exhibition, hung salon-style. In times of social upheaval, communal solidarity becomes more crucial than ever, and social gatherings can be revolutionary acts. Salon/Style turns the gallery into a salon in every sense of the word.

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hisssssssss:
Serpents and Social Imaginings
December 5, 2025- February 17, 2026
Curated by Sopheak Sam

This  exhibition catches the tail end of the Year of the Wood Snake and wraps with the arrival of the new lunar cycle. 

Serpents, snakes, and other slithering sorts have appeared in art and literature across nearly every culture since antiquity, carrying associations that teeter between temptation and transformation, horror and divination, death and eternal return. The artists in this exhibition reconfigure the serpent – whether directly or through traces – as an embodiment of mortality, spirituality, alterity, hybridity, and monstrosity. Some cast themselves, obliquely or overtly, as serpent or part-serpent, while others situate these creatures within dreamlike environments, rendering their scaled bodies as abstractions of psychological realms. Shedded skin, forked tongue, deep throat: hissssssss invites viewers with an expansive reading of our maligned serpentine friends, oft-misunderstood and deeply feared, recoiling as we leave behind a year marked by chaos and renewal.


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