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Tracing the Invisible
Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Tracing the Invisible, a group exhibition featuring HATCH Residents Jessica Harvey, Anansi kNOwBody, and Marina Miliou-Theocharaki, curated by Kate Pollasch.
The artists in Tracing the Invisible summon the unseen forces that reverberate through the past and imprint the present. Each artist in this exhibition manifests the intangible qualities of social constructs such as borders, belonging, race, and utopia to ignite dialogue, contemplation, intervention, and questioning. Referential fragments are juxtaposed with the ephemeral nature of memory, enlivening the gallery into a charged and enigmatic visual landscape of unresolved meanings. Tracing the Invisible grapples with the immaterial confluence of forces between and within us.
Artist Marina Miliou-Theocharaki considers water as a temporal, nurturing, and violent force in relation to borders, transnational narratives, growth, and futility. She situates a dialogue between constructs of monumentality and preservation and the evanescent nature of water, growth, and ice.
Jessica Harvey鈥檚 work exhumes the remnants of a failed utopian arts community in upstate New York, in order to pose poetic considerations about Victorian spirituality, community mythology, and madness. The palpable intimacy and residual will of a family fraught with tension and idealist hopes translates through Harvey鈥檚 questions of photography and referentiality, origins of knowledge, and utopian dichotomies.
Multidisciplinary artist Anansi kNOwBody confronts negative characteristic deeply embedded in manifestations of black male narratives found in entertainment figures, media and news outlets, and history. Intervening and uprooting these racial traits, kNOwBody expands outward to cast a mirror on the weight and oppressive maze that race, folklore, masculinity, and bureaucracy can bind and propel individuals. The trauma of black male narratives being erased or re颅鈥恮ritten with racism and stereotyping in a public context is made material as KNOwBody strips, repairs, buries, and exposes the subject matter within his work. In conjunction, KNOwBody will complete a performance piece during the exhibition where he enacts the act of mining history and embedded racialization onto his painting.
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Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present Tracing the Invisible, a group exhibition featuring HATCH Residents Jessica Harvey, Anansi kNOwBody, and Marina Miliou-Theocharaki, curated by Kate Pollasch.
The artists in Tracing the Invisible summon the unseen forces that reverberate through the past and imprint the present. Each artist in this exhibition manifests the intangible qualities of social constructs such as borders, belonging, race, and utopia to ignite dialogue, contemplation, intervention, and questioning. Referential fragments are juxtaposed with the ephemeral nature of memory, enlivening the gallery into a charged and enigmatic visual landscape of unresolved meanings. Tracing the Invisible grapples with the immaterial confluence of forces between and within us.
Artist Marina Miliou-Theocharaki considers water as a temporal, nurturing, and violent force in relation to borders, transnational narratives, growth, and futility. She situates a dialogue between constructs of monumentality and preservation and the evanescent nature of water, growth, and ice.
Jessica Harvey鈥檚 work exhumes the remnants of a failed utopian arts community in upstate New York, in order to pose poetic considerations about Victorian spirituality, community mythology, and madness. The palpable intimacy and residual will of a family fraught with tension and idealist hopes translates through Harvey鈥檚 questions of photography and referentiality, origins of knowledge, and utopian dichotomies.
Multidisciplinary artist Anansi kNOwBody confronts negative characteristic deeply embedded in manifestations of black male narratives found in entertainment figures, media and news outlets, and history. Intervening and uprooting these racial traits, kNOwBody expands outward to cast a mirror on the weight and oppressive maze that race, folklore, masculinity, and bureaucracy can bind and propel individuals. The trauma of black male narratives being erased or re颅鈥恮ritten with racism and stereotyping in a public context is made material as KNOwBody strips, repairs, buries, and exposes the subject matter within his work. In conjunction, KNOwBody will complete a performance piece during the exhibition where he enacts the act of mining history and embedded racialization onto his painting.
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