Friends and Family brings together works by Alejandro Cesarco that examines por- traiture as a structure of affinity, influence, and chosen genealogy. Through photographs, text works, and video, Cesarco traces the ways in which we assemble ourselves through others – teachers, peers, relatives, mentors, even fictional characters – constructing a network of relations that both precedes and exceeds the self. The exhibition stages portraits that are less about likenesses than about echoes and reverberations: intimate dedications, re-performed gestures, borrowed sentences, and recurring motifs. In doing so, Friends and Family suggests that identity is always a composite and ongoing.