On November 6, 2026, 5 Points Art Gallery + Studios, Cream City Culture Consortium, and Ori House present Changing the Tides, a solo exhibition of photographic works by Chicago-based curator and artist Destiny Brady and 5 Points Art Gallery + Studios' final exhibition.

Bringing together a body of black-and-white photographs made along the shores of Lake Michigan, Brady’s debut solo exhibition considers what it means to come to terms with who you are, what it costs to become someone new, and what remains when you finally decide to let yourself change.
 
Originally written as a poem in 2023, Changing the Tides found its visual language three years later during a summer photographic session at Promontory Point in Chicago. What began as an intimate meditation on self-discovery, heartbreak, grief, faith and reconstruction has become a collection of images that asks viewers to reckon with their own thresholds of departure and return. Through photography, Brady gives physical form to a question that has followed her through seasons of transformation: What does your salvation look like, and what did it cost you?
 
The exhibition moves through three states of becoming: The Reckoning, The Reconstruction and The Embodiment. What was required of you? What did you surrender? If something within you was abolished, what did you intentionally build in its place? And what do you practice now that your former self could not have imagined?
 
Featuring 15–20 black-and-white photographs, Changing the Tides invites viewers into a space of reflection, rupture and return. The works do not offer transformation as a clean or linear process. Instead, Brady considers the demolition of the self alongside the possibility of rebuilding, with greater intention, tenderness and agency. As much as this exhibition is about exodus, it is about returning: to oneself, to the body, to memory, and to the parts of ourselves we once thought we had to leave behind.
 
The exhibition arrives at a particularly meaningful moment for 5 Points Art Gallery + Studios, as the gallery prepares to transcend from its current physical space. Brady’s relationship with 5 Points Art Gallery reaches back to 2018, when Fatima Laster, the gallery’s owner and operator, first opened the gallery door to her as a college sophomore presenting her first-ever collages. Eight years later, Brady returns not as a student showing work for the first time, but as the resident curator of the gallery’s final exhibition.
 
In this way, Changing the Tides becomes a shared meditation on transition. As one chapter of 5 Points Art Gallery + Studios descents, another era of Fatima Laster’s life and practice begins to take flight. To reckon with departure and possibility is a concerted effort to acknowledge what has been built and what is being released to make way for what can emerge next. In the same space where Laster first made room for Brady’s and countless others’ creative practice, Brady now holds the door as Laster prepares to leave it, carrying with her the light, nourishment and community cultivated within these historic walls.
 
Changing the Tides will remain on view through Sunday, December 20, 2026. An opening reception will be held on Friday, November 6, 2026 from 6PM-9PM with an open mic and artist talk commencing at 7PM.