The Plan present Winter Survival features six artists working in ceramics, painting, performance, and sculpture in response to the challenges and obstacles of seeking legal stability, or the immigrant experience. Fengzee Yang, Nanxi Jin, Linhan Zhang, Sam Oh, YuHsin Wu, and Yumi Fukuda are traversing, or have traversed, the harsh terrain of the immigration process, in which their continuing presence in this country is impeded by identity.
Settling is a privilege, but escape has become a habit; we are drifting in a sense of dislocation in a familiar environment, yet paradoxically trying to find our own roots in a strange city and catch a momentary existence in the disorientation. With a taste, a smell, or an action, the desire for nostalgia transmutes into the routine. Everyday objects are no longer everyday objects, but a warning that keeps ringing in the midst of escape.
Revisiting the absurdity of everyday life becomes the desire to unravel the blindfold. We are finding, recording, and reconfiguring a one-way mirror, an umbilical cord, a ship that cannot sail the ocean. Between slack and tension and between real or false memories, we create a temporary space within which we can decipher an internal narrative, only to discover that the external truth has long been lost. Winter survival is a fertilizer, a repair for the lack of senses, a compression that manifests the suspended belonging and protects the lawn through a long-drawn-out winter until the next spring.
Special thanks to Jasmine Huaimin Yeh
*A special screening program will be hosted by Peixuan Ouyang on March 24th, 2023. For more details, check @the_plan_chicago Instagram.
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Tags: Chicago, East Garfield Park, Fengzee Yang, Linhan Zhang, Nanxi Jin, Sam Oh, Winter Survival, YuHsin Wu, Yumi Fukuda
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