Works by Linye Jiang 江麟冶

September 26 – October 21,2024

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 26, 6:00-8:00pm
with special artist talk from Linye Jiang and Marvin Veloso from 7:30 – 8:00pm

Alimentary Affects: Performance by Marvin Veloso
Thursday, October 10, 7:00 – 8:00pm
Dittmar Memorial Gallery – see below for more detaiils

“Fruit” was historically a derogatory term in Western culture, targeting gay men by associating them with femininity. In “Sweet, Juicy, and Rebellious,” I reclaim this symbolism through Fruit Portraits—a series that challenges societal norms and celebrates queer identity and femininity. By transforming fruit, I project my personal experiences, desires, and frustrations onto it, redefining a traditionally innocent subject.

The installation also features two video pieces: Tenderness and Warmth. In Tenderness, a hand gently caresses a soft object in water, transitioning from black and white to color. Warmth captures the gradual transformation of a frozen object as it responds to warmth, inviting viewers to reflect on the subtle, yet profound, effects of touch and their surroundings.

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Alimentary Affects
Performance by Marvin Veloso

Thursday, October 10, 7:00 – 8:00pm
Dittmar Memorial Gallery
In engaging with Linye Jiang’s photo-series “Sweet, Juicy, and Rebellious”, Marvin Veloso foregrounds the feelings and personal reflections that emerge from an intimate exchange between the viewer, the artwork, and the space they share. Marvin’s performance titled Alimentary Affects, captures these sensational and embodied experiences that can animate the potential of community building through artistic practices. Here, he evokes practice as a participatory way of knowing that unsettles the normative conventions of academic settings. Alimentary Affects explores through a performance lecture on affect theory, critical and poetic forms that will invite audience members with writing prompts that flirt with themes of pleasure, reflexivity, and queerness. Using various works from “Sweet, Juicy, and Rebellious” as a turning point, this interactive mode asks us to consider alternative ways of interpretation, so that we might lean into creative expression, as critical to nourishing our relationships to the production and dissemination of knowledge.

About the Artist
Marvin Veloso is a Chicago-based artist and researcher pursuing graduate studies in the Department of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Drawing upon themes across queerness and multimodal studies, his interdisciplinary approach to material cultures and social theory. As an artist–researcher within the Filipinx diaspora, his critical interrogations toward ongoing legacies of colonial and imperial expansion, informs his artistic practice with performance, poetry, and moving image.

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