Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and engaging ongoing popular and academic debates about public monuments, memory, trauma, and the politics of remembrance, The Way We Remember: Koenig’s Sphere, the Trauma of 9/11, and the Politics of Memory examines the power of art to represent collective loss. Twenty years after the attacks on the World Trade Center, the United States faced another unprecedented crisis as the COVID-19 pandemic claimed daily death tolls that, by December 2020, surpassed those of 9/11. This convergence raises urgent questions: how do we make immense loss visible and palpable, how do we mourn and commemorate individual and collective suffering, and what forms of memorialization are appropriate—particularly within minority and immigrant communities disproportionately affected by the pandemic? Drawing on artists’ responses to historical traumas such as the World Wars, the Holocaust, and 9/11, the exhibition invites artists and local community members in and beyond Morningside Heights to propose memorial projects that offer critical reflection, models of remembrance, and preliminary answers to these pressing questions.