Independent — House Of Seiko

Steve Kahn (1943 - 2018) & Salvatore Pione (b. 1995)
The Independent Art Fair
Booth 413

May 14 - 17, 2026

Pier 36
299 South Street
New York, NY

Hours:

Thursday, May 14, 2026 | 11 AM – 5 PM (By Invitation)
Friday, May 15, 2026 | 11 AM – 7 PM
Saturday, May 16, 2026 | 11 AM – 7 PM
Sunday, May 17, 2026 | 11 AM – 6 PM

Inquiries: cole@houseofseiko.info

House of Seiko will debut at Independent with a duo presentation featuring work by Steve Kahn and Salvatore Pione. The works of Kahn (1943 - 2018) and Pione (b. 1995) focus on an examination of the body as a site shaped by restraint, exposure, and negotiated boundaries. Though materially and historically distinct, both artists approach restraint not as limitation alone, but as a generative condition through which space, identity, and psychological pressure come into view.

Pione’s practice centers on patinated, weathered materials that echo the lived experience of aging urban environments, such as his native Sicily. His woven and layered constructions recall barricades, screens, and provisional architectures. These works serve as records of endurance on surfaces marked by time, contact, and erosion.

Kahn’s work addresses restraint through direct engagement with bodily vulnerability. Informed in part by his experience as a BDSM photographer in the early to mid-1970s, his practice isolates moments of exposure and suspension to examine the psychological tension between control, trust, and fragility. The body emerges as acutely present, tested against limits that are as much psychic as physical.

Together, Pione and Kahn engage in a dialogue about how bodies are shaped by architecture, intimacy, and constraint. The presentation is conceived as a measured, exhibition-like environment that privileges slowed looking, framing restraint as a shared language through which vulnerability and endurance are quietly negotiated.

Steve Kahn
Polaroid #514, 1974-75
Polaroid
3 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.

Salvatore Pione
Counting Together, 2024
Steel, MDF, steel blackener
18 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.