Memory Palace
@ Circle Contemporary
2010 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, June 1st, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, July 20th
Elana Adler, Guy Conners, Lindsey Dorr-Niro, Oscar Gonzalez Diaz, Thomas Kong, Alysha Kostelny, and Sara Ludy.
Curated by:
Nina Wexelblatt
“I was looking at all of the things and trying to notice connections between them. Why this table, why now? Why these things and not others?”
-Alexandra Kleeman, Fairy Tale
To remember several things at once, turn each into an object and visualize arranging it carefully around an interior of your choosing. This is your memory palace. Anytime you need to recall an item, wander back through the palace. It should be right where you left it: information in a mental blueprint. But you might find that things congeal strangely in the set design of the mind. Coordinates warp and contract, matter changes properties, references dissolve.
This exhibition presents subconscious architectures and objects at the edge of familiarity. Inverted, fragmented, or at an odd angle, these works free us to forget the slick surfaces of easy identification, utility, or commodification. Turned over like tumbled rocks, their woozy edges expose what’s underneath: from the interior décor of dreams to the pure forms hiding inside the scraps of consumer culture.
This program is brought to you by the Arts of Life
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Tags: Alysha Kostelny, arts of life, Chicago, Circle Contemporary, East Garfield Park, Elana Adler, Guy Conners, Lindsey Dorr-Niro, Memory Palace, Nina Wexelblatt, Óscar González Díaz, Sara Ludy, Thomas Kong
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