“I’ll be gifting this book to people for
years to come and will recommend it to
everyone who asks me the question:
‘What is mass incarceration?’ ”
“This book is a dream come true.”
Running from April 4 through June 28, 2026, The Warehouse is a collaboration between artist and writer Vic Liu, abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba, and the Brooklyn Public Library. The project features more than two dozen new, full-scale paintings by Liu that will cover the library's walls, transforming the public space into an immersive exploration of resistance, survival, and possibility.
The Warehouse held over 37 free, public events and was visited by over 30,000 people.
"How many of you have seen the exhibition, The Warehouse? You should all go there. It’s an amazing exhibition curated by Mariame Kaba, and the artist is Vic Liu."
“I have been told that prison is a cacophony. It was something I worried wouldn’t come across in the silent pages of the book. Especially in facilities that are overcrowded, with dorms of a hundred people crammed into bunk beds, perpetually lit with blaring fluorescent lights, prison can be constant, unrelenting noise. Solitary can be even louder, as there are fewer humans and soft belongings to pad the echoes. You can go mad listening to someone else go mad four cells away.”
