pasa¿ — What Can a Wall Change? | A Gallerette Experiment

about pasa¿

pasa¿ is one experiment inside Gallerette — a house for distributed art. pasa¿ places original art in the places where communities already gather — hospitals, libraries, cafés, barbershops, hotels, schools, real estate developments. We call these spaces gallerëttes. And what happens inside them — that's the experiment.

We are transatlantic by design: rooted in the African diaspora, operating across continents, returning value in three directions simultaneously — to the artists, to the spaces that host them, and to the mission.

pasa¿ is a 501(c)(3) social impact experiment of The Birthright Project. Digital education and opportunity powered by themmaadd institute.

how we work

when art arrives on a wall, value moves in three directions at once.

artists & their communities

a third of every sale returns directly to artists — across Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and diaspora.

gallerëtte hosts & their guests

a third returns to the space — the hospital, the library, the café — and the visitors who bring pieces home.

the mission

a third funds digital education and opportunity at themmaadd institute — directly.

co-creations

what happens when a hospital wall tells the story of the city outside? when a library becomes a door to Lagos or Kingston? these are illustrative scenarios of the kind of co-creation pasa¿ is designed to make possible — not yet verified case studies.

a waiting room — illustrative

in lagos there is no arrival

a reading room — illustrative

she turned before they called

silence all other gods

join the pasa¿ team

a small team with a long view — artists, educators, curators, and community builders, from Accra to Kingston, Miami to Washington D.C.

this recruitment is specific to the pasa¿ experiment. Gallerette's house-wide collaborators — curators, designers, technologists, and funders across all collections and experiments — apply separately through Gallerette's About page.

what can a wall change?

can it hold memory?

can it carry culture?

can it return value?

can it become infrastructure?

can a wall open a passage between continents?

this is pasa¿

a transatlantic social impact experiment

every wall is already changing us.

they shape how people feel.

they carry stories.

they quietly define the places we have access to — and subtly shape our memories.

the question isn't whether walls shape communities — they do. the question is how. should. they?

so we gave the wall a new job.

the mechanism

gallerëttes — illustrative map, hosts forming

illustrative — what we expect to observe experiment, day —

pasa¿ has no verified installations yet. The figures and notes below are targets and hypotheses, not measured results — they'll be replaced with sourced, dated numbers as real gallerëttes open.

gallerëttes (target)

countries (target)

visitors scanned (illustrative)

conversations started (illustrative)

patients could spend longer in the waiting room.

works could find new homes.

value could return to the café.

children could ask about the artist.

a library wall could become a reason to stay.

become a gallerëtte

a gallerëtte begins with a wall.

and a belief that it can do more.

about pasa¿

join the team.

we're building something transatlantic. if that sounds like your kind of work, we'd love to hear from you.

fellows are project-based; associates are part-time; general management roles are full engagement. all roles are remote-first and mission-driven.