Its Juice is Medicine for the Eyes
@ What It Is
23 East Madison, Chicago, IL
Opening Friday, December 14th, from 5:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Saturday, January 12th
“In many ways, consumption is the concept that permeates the boundary between art and commodity. This margin is necessarily vague, and in our culture of global capitalism it can be difficult at times to distinguish the beautiful from the vulgar, the permanent from the ephemeral. “Its Juice is Medicine for the Eyes” considers food as a media and subject in terms of objects, substances, compositions, and ideologies that are literally consumed. Food has the innate capacity to evoke feelings of desire, disgust, despair, and joy. Rituals of conspicuous gluttony and of Spartan self-denial are interwoven with our collective consciousness as Americans, and culinary traditions hugely shape identity and culture. The artists selected for the exhibition make work that explores food and our relationship to it politically, nostalgically, pornographically, metaphysically, and in myriad other ways”
Featuring work by:
William Lamson
Guy Goldstein
Barbara Koenen
Nathan Aldridge
Samuel Sotelo-Avila
Darryl Westly-Dennard
Emil Matirosian
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Tags: Barbara Koenen, Darryl Westly-Dennard, Emil Matirosian, Guy Goldstein, Loop, Nathan Aldridge, Samuel Sotelo-Avila, What It Is, William Lamson
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