Knowledge Is Myth: Chimeric Continuities

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 1, 2026 

Knowledge Is Myth: Chimeric Continuities features work by artists and collectives Enzo Camacho & Ami Lien, Candice Lin, Cole Lu, and Ayoung Yu & Nicholas Oh that engage languages of mythmaking as a means of knowledge-making and unmaking, while questioning what constitutes “mythology” (including modern myths) in the formation of history and archives. Drawing from pre-colonial, pre-humanistic, diasporic, and often chimeric modes of knowledge production, these works reconfigure canonical hierarchies of being that separate human and so-called “nonhuman” subjects, realms, and alter-lives. As critical humanities scholar Zikkayah Iman Jackson asks in Becoming Human what does it mean to be homo-narrans (storytelling human) more than just homo-sapiens (thinking/reasoning human)? Knowledge Is Myth: Chimeric Continuities further excavates various archives, rare books, manuscripts, and artworks from across Harvard, an institution of both knowledge production and of mythological proportions. 

This exhibition is organized by Danni Shen, Senior Curatorial and Public Programs Assistant.