Ruby Que and Raychel Carrión: It Comes to Pass
@ Switch-Hook Projects
3216 W Augusta Blvd, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Sunday, March 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, April 23rd
It Comes to Pass, a temporal inversion of the biblical phrase, is both a declaration of the inevitable—each outcome following the next—and a description of a locomotive finding its way, not toward a destination, but to more rail. In a surreal rumination on the aesthetics of traversing an unknown landscape, travel appears as the means of worldly displacement and the host for apparitions of the uncanny.
Switch-Hook Projects utilizes available space across the city to exhibit the work of local and international artists. Featuring work by artists Ruby Que (Chicago) and Raychel Carrión (Albarracín, Spain), It Comes to Pass inhabits the front corridor of a furniture warehouse on the west side.
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Ruby Que is an interdisciplinary artist focusing on site-specific interventions and expanded cinema performance. They play with light to open portals and create hauntings. Drawing from their lived experience as a queer, itinerant immigrant, they meditate on yearning and find belonging in transit. They have exhibited and performed at Roman Susan, Poetry Foundation, Comfort Station, Elastic Arts (Chicago, IL), Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca, NY), Stove Works (Chattanooga, TN), SOLOS (Karlsruhe, Germany) and elsewhere. Que holds a BA from Cornell University and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where they currently teach.
Raychel Carrión (b. Havana, Cuba 1978) graduated in 2011 from the Institute of Superior Arts in Havana, Cuba (ISA), and studied with Arte de Conducta from 2006-2008, Tania Bruguera’s workshop on behavioral and political art. His work examines how perception is shaped by centers of power through the use of stereotyped forms of ideology. It questions the normalization of manipulated historiography and the role of leader worship. The focus is on the “politicization of the affective” as a force that generates unity among militant subjects at the expense of individuality, functioning as a trigger for the repression of individual freedoms. From this perspective, he proposes “generosity” as an expansion of the ethical field, extending the concept of solidarity through empathy for difference.
https://www.raychelcarrion.com/
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For press inquiries and high-resolution images or to schedule a preview of the exhibition contact
Zola Rollins … zola@s-hprojects.com
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