Derosia

Many of the artists here entered their twenties in the 2010s and brought all of it into their work: the economic anxiety, the screen addiction, and the sense that the future keeps getting canceled. This is art made by people who grew up online and aren’t sure if that ruined them or saved them.

The work is about what's keeping people up at night.The general sense that everything is falling apart, but you still have to show up to your therapist appointment.

It's funny because it has to be. When the future looks bleak, what else can you do? The result is work that's beautiful and weird, inviting you in while making you slightly uncomfortable—which is maybe the most honest thing art can do right now.

You leave feeling like you just caught up on what's actually happening out there in the world. And less alone with whatever you're sitting with.

Derosia began in Philadelphia in 2010 as Bodega, started by recent Hampshire College graduates who turned it into the heartbeat of the local scene. In 2014, two of the founders, Elyse Derosia and Eric Veit, brought the project to New York and renamed it Derosia. They show their generation, their community, people figuring out the same impossible stuff they are.