TICK TACK presents Sojourn, the first Belgian solo exhibition by Allen-Golder Carpenter.

Inspired by the Japanese anime film Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance, Sojourn explores cycles of life, death, and reincarnation as a frame- work for thinking through history and the burden of its preservation. Through a critique of monu- ments, memory, and cultural canon, Carpenter asks urgent questions: What gets to be remem- bered? Who decides? And what forms can remembrance take?

Developed across multiple interconnected for- mats—a site-specific installation, paintings, a short story, and a film—Sojourn unfolds as a fractured narrative across all three levels of TICK TACK, with each element interpreting the others. This layered structure reflects the unstable nature of historical perspective, and our collective strug- gle to hold onto truth in the face of erasure.

With this project, Carpenter continues to chal- lenge how we assign value to memory, and who is permitted to leave a mark.

Sojourn was partially developed during Carpenter’s residency at TICK TACK in Antwerp.