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Possessive David Zwirner 18 September–25 October 2025 New York: 69th Street
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David Zwirner is pleased to present Possessive, an exhibition of work by the London- and Los Angeles–based artist P. Staff (b. 1987) on view at the gallery’s East 69th Street location in New York. Staff’s expansive practice—which includes sculpture, video, installation, and writing—explores how language, desire, and institutions define and regulate embodied experience. Responding subtly to the space’s architectural cues, the artist’s installation—which includes a central video work projected across the gallery’s three stories, and a new series of sculptures—simulates the sensation of a body as it is infiltrated and surveilled. This will be Staff’s first solo exhibition in New York.

Solo exhibitions include P. Staff: On Venus, curated by Claude Adjil, at the Serpentine Galleries, London, in 2019, and P. Staff: In Ekstase, curated by Elena Filipovic, at Kunsthalle Basel in 2023. Staff’s work was also featured in Even Better Than the Real Thing—the 2024 Whitney Biennial curated by Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli, with Min Sun Jeon and Beatriz Cifuentes—and The Milk of Dreams, the 2022 Venice Biennale curated by Cecilia Alemani. Bonner Kunstverein, Germany, will open a major solo exhibition of the artist’s work on October 11, and their work will be featured in the 2025 Taipei Biennial Whispers on the Horizon, opening November 1.

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Exhibition view: P. Staff, Possessive, David Zwirner, 69th Street, New York (18 September–25 October 2025). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: P. Staff, Possessive, David Zwirner, 69th Street, New York (18 September–25 October 2025). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: P. Staff, Possessive, David Zwirner, 69th Street, New York (18 September–25 October 2025). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: P. Staff, Possessive, David Zwirner, 69th Street, New York (18 September–25 October 2025). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: P. Staff, Possessive, David Zwirner, 69th Street, New York (18 September–25 October 2025). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: P. Staff, Possessive, David Zwirner, 69th Street, New York (18 September–25 October 2025). Courtesy David Zwirner.
Exhibition view: P. Staff, Possessive, David Zwirner, 69th Street, New York (18 September–25 October 2025). Courtesy David Zwirner.
About the Artist

As a filmmaker, installation artist, and poet, P. Staff draws from a wide-ranging assortment of inspirations, materials, and settings, of which recent examples include Achille Mbembe’s theory of necro-politics, affect theory, the trans-poetics of writers such as Che Gossett and Eva Hayward, as well as their own studies in modern dance, astrology, and end of life care. In Staff’s interdisciplinary practice, these varying threads serve to emphasise the processes by which bodies – especially those of people who are queer, trans, or disabled – are interpreted, regulated, and disciplined in a rigorously controlled society.

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About the Gallery
Since opening its doors in 1993, David Zwirner has been home to innovative, singular, and pioneering exhibitions across a variety of media and genres. The gallery has helped foster the careers of some of the most influential artists working today, and has maintained long-term representation of a wide-ranging, international group of artists and estates. Based in New York with spaces in Chelsea and the Upper East Side, David Zwirner expanded to Europe in 2012 with a gallery in an eighteenth-century Georgian townhouse in London’s Mayfair district, and opened its first gallery in Asia in January 2018 in Central Hong Kong.
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