VELVET
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Friday, January 24th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Wednesday, April 1st
The Leather Archives & Museum presents its first art show of 2020:
VELVET
Friday, January 24
6pm-9PM
21+ only (refreshments will be provided)
“Cinema’s greatest power may be its ability to evacuate meanings and identities, to proliferate resemblances without sense or origin. … There is no structuring lack, no primordial division, but a continuity between the physiological and affective responses of my own body and the appearances and disappearances, the mutations and perdurances, of the bodies and images on screen. The important distinction is not the hierarchical, binary one between bodies and images, or between the real and its representations. It is rather a question of discerning multiple and continually varying interactions among what can be defined indifferently as bodies and as images: degrees of stillness and motion, of action and passion, of clutter and emptiness, of light and dark.”
– Steven Shaviro, the Cinematic Body
How do we process the complex networking of empowerment, misogyny and sexual/gendered nomativities in images and ourselves?
Caleb Yono (1981) works with representations of figures caught in moments of transformation and transmutation. Caleb’s works on paper, performances, photographs, videos, and objects; Yono hopes to understand and process the dissonance and harmony of the feminine, femme, and hysteric. Caleb holds an MFA from The School of the Art institute of Chicago in painting and drawing. Caleb has exhibited with both national and international galleries including Andrew Rafacz, Monya Rowe, and Roots and Culture.
calebyono.com/home.html
Melissa Hespelt (1996) is an interdisciplinary artist working to free glamour, superficiality, and the erotic from their negative connotations with feminism by engaging in acts of embodiment, transformation, & self- objectification. Melissa holds a BFA from The School of The Art Institute.
vimeo.com/melissahespelt
Curated/Production by Vicente Ugartechea
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