we are each other’s

SNAP is pleased to present we are each other’s, featuring new work by Salem Smith. The exhibition runs from May 23 – June 20, 2026, at SNAP Gallery. 

we are each other’s acknowledges our precarious future by reimagining the mundane through the lens of loss. Salem Smith’s trinkets, iPhone photos, and notes app love letters become protective talismans constructed from wrapping paper and bright patchwork images. Smith employs screenprinting to tile together large images to mirror his fragmented yet whole sense of his own gender and belonging. Intimate household objects act as offerings to explore how love, death, and transitioning intersect, drawing on concepts of past lives and ancestral veneration. This work, both a celebration and a preemptive grieving, imagines the space as an altar to love itself.

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 23, 7-9 pm

Artist Talk: TBD

Artist Statement

Salem Zurch Smith is a multimedia story-teller working in photography, film, and printmaking. Through ritual, astrology, and long walks, Smith continually finds new ways of bridging his spiritual and artistic practice. Salem lives in amiskwacîwâskahikan with his beloved and his two cats, Truck and Alfie. He dreams of one day being an absolutely shredded grandpa with 3-12 grandbabies.