Music Island is a constructed space built to honor the rituals of music—those of listening and those of performing. In this exhibition, KEFE (Kelly Tunstall and Ferris Plock) draw from their lives surrounded by music: from family to radio, from live shows to mixtapes.

The show traces the transition from physical formats to virtual platforms, focusing on vestigial objects—cords, cassettes, speakers, ticket stubs—and the people who carry sound: musicians, techs, fans, crews. “Music has always been part of how we live and how we work,” they write. “Not just something playing in the background, but something that shapes the way we move through the world, to both remember and move forward at once, and drive our curiosity.”

This is their first exhibition in San Francisco in many years, and the first to place music at the center of their collaborative work—though, as they note, “every show we’ve ever made has already been about music in so many ways.”