Adam Pendleton’s Ishmael in the Garden is a 24-minute single-channel video portrait of dancer, choreographer, writer, and curator Ishmael Houston-Jones, shown in galleries such as Galerie Max Hetzler, Eva Presenhuber, and Pace. Filmed in black-and-white and color, it is built from interview, conversation, and recitation, functioning as a “portrait in time” in which Houston-Jones recalls and examines his life and practice. Structured around a chain of “I remember” statements, the loose, non-linear montage reflects Pendleton’s interest in language, Black avant-garde histories, and representation, probing how images and stories construct identity, authorship, and political consciousness, memory, vulnerability, and historical echo.