Opening reception: Lexi Hide | Inside Joke

Most people would cross the street to avoid a skunk. In Lexi Hide’s photographs, one keeps showing up anyway, calm and composed in places it has no business being.

Join us Saturday from 6pm until late for the opening of Inside Joke, a series Hide made between 2024 and 2026. It comes to Visit in a new form after shows at the Pingyao International Photography Festival, the Jaipur International Art Festival and Gallery MC in New York.

Hide, a Cape Town–born photographer now based in New York, builds her images rather than finding them. When the friends she usually photographed were out of reach, she rented a taxidermied skunk from Manhattan’s Evolution Store for 24 hours. Over the next few years she rented several more. Each picture passes for wildlife until you look twice, and then you start picturing the ridiculous day it took to make it.

The photographs are beautiful, but sometimes it just isn’t that serious.

Inside Joke is on view through December 12, 2026.