Jan 25th 2019

Present Absence: Closing

@ Uri-Eichen Gallery

2101 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608

Opening Friday, January 25th, from 6PM - 10PM

On view through Friday, February 1st

CLOSING Including a casual discussion about art and activism and an opportunity for people to talk about current and upcoming projects and find support. Salome Chasnoff and Meredith Zielke will discuss the process of creating Present Absence and future plans.

PRESENT ABSENCE is a five-channel video installation that personalizes the lives of people killed by Chicago Police. These stories, generated from long-form interviews with family members, invite viewers to experience those murdered not as cases or statistics, as sensational media stories or police cover-up tales – but as unique human beings who made life-changing contributions to others, who are loved and mourned. For every story, five family members are in virtual conversation, each featured in their own screen to offer their piece of the completed picture. Present Absence uses multichannel storytelling in an intimate living room setting to facilitate deep listening and proffer paths to radical empathy.

Salome Chasnoff is a filmmaker and installation artist who is inspired by the enlightening, humanizing and healing capacities of storytelling. For 3 decades, she has maintained a collaborative social practice and exhibition career embracing and interrogating the indivisibility of the making of art and the making of relationship. Her installations aspire to create sacred spaces for community healing.

Meredith Zielke is a filmmaker and cinematographer. She works mainly in experimental documentary features and large-scale video installation. Her films have showed in numerous national and international festivals, conferences, galleries, educational institutions and community centers.

Open by appointment outside of receptions through 2-1-19. For an appointment, call 312 852 7717

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