exhibition Daydream in Memories of Youth &
Grammar of Possiblity
Exhibiting at Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco September 4 - 27th
The exhibition will be open Tuesdays–Saturdays 12–5pm, in Gallery 107 on the first floor at 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA.
Press Release
Fox Projects, an independent curatorial platform recently launched by SLATE contemporary Co-Director Danielle Fox, is pleased to announce the opening of Daydream in Memories of Youth & Grammar of Possibility, on view at Minnesota Street Projects in San Francisco, September 4 through 27.
The multi-media exhibition will be anchored by Daydream in Memories of Youth, a series of nineteen photographs by acclaimed Austin-based artist Stephanie Duprie Routh, exploring memory, nostalgia, identity, sensuality, and the folding of time. In these pictures of (mainly but not exclusively) young women, Routh explores her own nostalgia for a time when sensuality was part of her identity and power in the world. As curator Danielle Fox observes:
“Routh’s approach to her subjects shows them as human beings with complex embodied feelings, including private feelings that may include, among many other things, vulnerability, sensuality, desire, a desire to be desired, a need for intimacy and belonging, and for being seen. Their role as the protagonists of their own stories defies simple objectification, and the layered and sometimes puzzling complexity of the photos draws viewers in to witness and even participate in a multitude of unfolding dramas.”
In the video room, the images will be accompanied by a reading of nineteen poems, one for each photograph, collectively titled Grammar of Possibility, by Dalya Sachs. A scent, titled Carmin, has also been commissioned especially for the exhibition, crafted by Mexican olfactory artist Lula Curioca, with notes of skin folds, underarm sweat, and rumpled sheets, among others.
The photography, poetry, and a sample of the scent are all included in a beautiful hand-bound limited-edition catalogue published to accompany the exhibition.
A public reception for the artists will be held during Minnesota Street Project’s monthly First Saturday event on Saturday, September 6, from 4–7pm. The exhibition will be open Tuesdays–Saturdays 12–5pm, in Gallery 107 on the first floor at 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA.
About
Stephanie Duprie Routh
Stephanie Duprie Routh's work has been exhibited in the United States, Japan, Italy, Spain, and India, both in galleries and juried shows. She has been published by the RAW Magazine, FRAMES Magazine, PDN Magazine, National Geographic Traveler, The Austin Chronicle, and by several independent photo reviews. Her work is held in the permanent collections of The Wittliff Collection, CENTER Image Library and Archive, Texas A&M University, Concordia University, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, The Loren at Lady Bird Lake, and in private collections. Her work has been recognized with awards from Julia Margaret Cameron Award, IPA Award, and LensCulture.
Dalya Sachs
Dalya Sachs has a PhD in French and Italian literature from UC Berkeley, where she also taught. She has worked as a translator and literary editor, and, in more recent years, she has been deeply involved in supporting arts and culture nonprofits in the communities she lives in, including work for Oakland Art Murmur, the Umlauf Museum and Sculpture Garden in Austin, Texas, and most recently, at the Luther Burbank Center for Arts in Santa Rosa, California. The series of poems she wrote to accompany these photographs marks a re-focusing of her own literary practice, bringing it to bear on two of her favorite subjects: figurative visual art and grammar.
Lula Curioca
Lula Curioca, who designed the scent for the exhibition and contributed a short essay to the book, is a pioneer in artisanal-independent perfumery in Mexico, and has achieved international recognition by exhibiting at the world's first olfactory art gallery, Olfactory Art Keller, in NYC. For more than a decade, Lula has been designing long-lasting scented art objects conceived as an extension of the human identity.
Daydreams in Memories of Youth & Grammar of Possibility was first shown in Austin in October 2024, and was on view in New York City at Salmagundi Club in April 2025
Danielle Fox has been curating exhibitions at SLATE Contemporary Gallery since it was founded in Oakland in 2009. Fox Projects marks an independent curatorial space where she can pursue conceptually-layered creative expressions and partnerships. She published an essay on Routh’s work on Substack in April 2025. https://foxondaydreamsessay.substack.com/p/ daydream-in-memories-of-youth
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Danielle Fox, Director, Fox Projects, foxprojects.art danielle@foxprojects.art