Aug 2nd 2024

Mandy Cano Villalobos: DELECTABLE GOODS PROFIT NOT

@ ARC Gallery

1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642

Opening Friday, August 2nd, from 5PM - 8PM

On view through Friday, August 30th

“Delectable Goods Profit Not” portrays home as a place just out of reach. A nostalgic mass of glass figurines, frayed linens, and derelict toys play upon Western stereotypes of “grandma”, comfort, and childhood memories (both real and imagined). This domestic hoard symbolizes a place of belonging, a never-changing sanctuary of acceptance and solace. But nothing is permanent. The centerpiece – a vacant chair – suggests absence and death. Red velvet stanchions block access to the familiar items that beckon viewers approach. Our desires for home, and all its associations, remain unfulfilled. In its place lingers alienation and longing.

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