Tara Parambi: You Can Buy Happiness But Eventually You’ll Shit It Out
@ AMFM Gallery
2151 W 21st St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, May 4th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Tuesday, May 15th
The exhibition “You Can Buy Happiness But Eventually You’ll Shit It Out” is a reflection of the artist, Tara Parambi’s obsession with the sources of happiness. This body of work consists of eleven pared down sculptures that act as a foil for one singular visually abundant painting.
Each piece delves into a different realm – family, eroticism, relationships, mass media and capitalism – that questions what happiness looks like both in its physical manifestation and as an intangible ideology. In other words, the works serve as hypotheses that are at the viewer’s discretion to judge their veracity. The show has an overarching feeling of cautionary longing with a perceptible undercurrent of acidic humour.
Tara Parambi (b. 1997, Mumbai, India, currently lives between India and Chicago) is an Indian artist of British nationality currently pursuing a BFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has previously lived in India and London. Her work is signed under the moniker CIIIIG.
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