Regarding
@ Leisure
2444 W Division St, Chicago, IL
Opening Thursday, April 3rd, at 4PM
On view through Sunday, April 6th
April 3-6 2025 Gallery hours 4-6PM / Sidewalk viewing 6-10PM
Regarding, co-presented with the Onion City Experimental Film Festival, installs one video from a Chicago artist each evening of the festival in Leisure’s street-facing gallery. Meticulously observed scenes of everyday objects, settings, and activities provide a focused subjectivity towards the expansive haze of the world. At times lingering, at times fleeting, these videos consider the internal domestic in constant exchange with external infrastructures, imbuing the public and quotidian with renewed intimacy and attention. Regarding is curated in collaboration with Onion City programmers Nicky Ni and Elise Schierbeek.
Videos will be on view inside with sound during gallery hours from 4-6PM and outside without sound from 6-10PM.
Lineup:
APRIL 3: City Tissue Slices – Yongfeng Fu, 12 min
A slow burning and impressionistic gaze through a downtown Chicago window.
APRIL 4: Fantasia (The Weary Wheel) – Brett Swenson, 10 min
An exploration of the reproductive fantasies of suburban middle class American life that draws strange slants of meaning out of quotidian affairs.
APRIL 5: Glistening Seagull – Chae Yu, Korea, 11 min
A dream-like Super 8 travelogue whisking together landscapes, faces, keepsakes, and debris.
APRIL 6: at the bamboo green 在竹翠苑 – Xiaolu Wang, 12 min
The filmmaker’s visit to their grandmother’s grave in Hui Muslim tradition at the foot of China’s Helan Mountains. Shot on cellphone in one continuous take, the film accentuates an in-between: visiting from America, the space of chant, and a tension generated by the camera’s presence.
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Tags: Al Jarnow, Brett Swenson, Carter Burwell, Chae Yu, Chicago, Chicago Filmmakers, Humboldt Park, Karen Kiser, Kathy ROse, Michael Penn, Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Osamu Tezuka, Regarding, Vince Collins, Xiaolu Wang, Yongfeng Fu
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