Julie Mehretu's latest exhibition, "Our Days, Like a Shadow (a non-abiding hauntology)," is on view at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York from April 14 to June 6, 2026. The show presents paintings that push beyond traditional representation, creating immersive perceptual environments through dense layers of abstraction, cartographic traces, and architectural fragments. The works, including the TRANSpaintings series created with Nairy Baghramian, extend Mehretu's practice into spatial expansion, where painting behaves like infrastructure without becoming literal architecture.
This exhibition matters because it exemplifies what the article terms a "post-retrospective condition"—a state where an artist's practice, having been fully absorbed by major institutions, no longer needs to declare itself through conventional means. Mehretu's work challenges viewers to navigate fields of visual overload and delayed recognition, reflecting contemporary conditions of information saturation and historical accumulation. The show also demonstrates how painting can evolve beyond medium boundaries, operating as a continuously reorganized perceptual field rather than a fixed image.