Ray Madrigal: I Am A Thing That Holds Something Else
@ ACRE Projects
2921 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, January 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, February 28th
ACRE Projects is pleased to kick off the 2025 exhibition season with Ray Madrigal’s solo exhibition, I Am A Thing That Holds Something Else.
Humans, half liquid, are good at assuming the form of the containers we occupy. The world we’ve built exerts its influence over us just as we have in constructing it – we perfect, adjust, corrode, and inherit each other.
In this feedback loop of material to meaning, we also find ourselves inextricably linked to other people. When we touch the things that sustain us, we inadvertently tug at the endless strands of humans who made these objects possible.
I Am A Thing That Holds Something Else is a body of work that attempts to articulate this nested nature of our shared reality. The objects within encourage a slower study of the quick little details we move amongst daily – they are a bid for closer scrutiny of the worldly experiences that hold us in, hold us up, and hold us back.
Under this concentrated gaze, ours is a world that can be redesigned with softer intent.
Made again, even in very small ways, to better hold us and our broad imaginings.
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