Brad Stumpf and Jeffly Gabriela Molina: Esta Casa Es Un Cuerpo / This House Is A Body
@ ARTRUSS
4553 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Saturday, April 6th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, May 26th
Esta Casa Es Un Cuerpo / This House Is a Body invites its audience to think about love, self-love and love as a couple, and also invites you to contemplate the shared dreams that sustain a family. It compels us to ask, what is a home? While it answers: a place where hope lives and is built, contained, and organized alongside my partner’s habits and belongings. These works are whispers of truth and function like deep breaths held in the midst of a daydream.
The artists Brad Stumpf and Jeffly Gabriela Molina celebrated their union in 2020 during the lockdown that resulted from the pandemic. For a period of two years, they resided in a small apartment alongside Molina’s parents, who had recently emigrated from crisis-ridden Venezuela. The works in this exhibition were made in a time of great uncertainty (political, physical and financial); they were not made as a deviation from reality, but as a kernel of hope for which to reach and hold. Molina grew up in San Cristobal, an Andean city located in a mountainous region of Western Venezuela. Stumpf grew up in rural Illinois, outside the village of Hamel, in Madison County. Each artist uses a different visual vocabulary to teach each other about their different backgrounds and to express how they feel about building a home together.
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