Mirza Cizmic Vertigio Part IV, 2022 Oil on Paper 30 x 22 in
Opening Reception: October 30, 2025
Special Screening & Talk with Lizzie Borden: November 4, 2025
USC Roski Graduate Gallery | 1262 Palmetto St, Los Angeles, CA 90013
Los Angeles, CA — This fall, USC Roski’s MA Cohort in Curatorial Practices and the Public
Sphere presents PEEP/SHOW, an exhibition that draws on the historical and cultural resonance of the peep show box to investigate what compels us—again and again—to the acts of looking and imaging.
The exhibition brings together works that examine voyeurism, representation, surveillance technologies, and the mechanics of spectatorship. While eclectic in subject and material, these works collectively turn our gaze back onto the apparatus itself: how viewing technologies shape
the images we consume, the selves we perform, and the ways those performances become bound to our sense of identity.
PEEP/SHOW complicates traditional binaries—such as observer and subject, self and other, and performer and viewer—disrupting the moralized frameworks that often govern discussions of voyeurism. By foregrounding intention on both sides of the viewing relationship, the exhibition
aims to initiate a more expansive and agential conversation about the pleasures and perils of self-imaging in an era of political and conceptual instability.
Tsohil Bhatia • Antonia Crane • Mirza Cizmic • Juan Pablo Echeverri • Sebastián Hernández • Kayla Tange •Cammie Toloui• Molly Vaughan • and more.
As part of the exhibition, pioneering independent filmmaker Lizzie Borden will present a special screening and talk on November 4, 2025, further extending the conversation around gender, representation, and spectatorship.
There will also be a curated reading library and additional programming.
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 30, 2025
Location: USC Roski Graduate Gallery | 1262 Palmetto St, Los Angeles, CA 90013 Screening & Talk: Lizzie Borden — Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Curatorial Team: Sam Fitz, Luka Fisher, Alex Kawawaki, Nicole Sue Kim, Ezequiel Olvera, Joshua J. Ramirez
Supervised by Jenny Lin, PhD
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