Philadelphia keeps certain treasures a step away from the main street, as if they prefer listeners to passersby. The Print Center lives in one of those quiet places, a historic carriage house near Rittenhouse Square where paper hums and light studies the walls. Founded in 1915 as The Print Club and renamed in 1996, the Center advances printmaking and photography through exhibitions, education, and books. The address is modest. The ambition is not.
The exhibition is Cecilia Paredes: By my side or back of me. It ran from April 18 to July 19, 2025, the artist’s Philadelphia debut. Two currents meet inside the show. On the walls, downstairs, performative photographic self-portraits where the body courts disappearance inside pattern. Upstairs, a floating sculpture built from wishes gathered from visitors and post-industrial and the self. I and we, set in motion by looking.
