SPCE Gallery is proud to present Death Drive, a group exhibition featuring works by Jonathan Santoro, Meredith Sellers, Catherine Mulligan, and Gregory Kalliche. On view from June 21 through July 26, 2025, the exhibition investigates destruction as a seductive and generative force—an uncanny drive toward unraveling, collision, and transformation.

Borrowing its name from Freud’s concept of the Todestrieb, or death drive, the exhibition draws parallels between psychological compulsion and the cultural machinery of spectacle, collapse, and compounding crisis. Here, the car crash serves as metaphor: at once sudden and inevitable, mechanical and mythic. Each artist contributes work that blurs the boundaries between intent and accident, control and chaos, attraction and violence.

Death Drive is not merely a contemplation of destruction—it is a critical celebration of its seductive mechanics. When collapse becomes strategy, and ruin becomes aesthetic, what remains is a landscape of charged gestures, magnetic failures, and uncanny elegance.