Tessa Siddle: Hexenhaus
@ No Coast
1500 W 17th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Friday, March 12th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, April 2nd
The private lives of humans, animals, and houseplants exist betwixt and between the magic and glamour of polarized human emotions in Hexenhaus. Fantastic environments created by Tessa Siddle build psychologically charged hybrid spaces and narratives. Domestic objects, natural elements and projections combine to embody multiple versions of self in evocative settings and situations. The breakdown of communication-attraction-domesticity-loneliness-jealousy-witchcraft becomes a meditation.
As a Transgender film/video, installation and performance artist, Siddle’s work uses costumes, cosmetics, projections, blue-screen and minimally worked materials such as cardboard, yarn, tin foil, untreated wood, leaves, paper, fabric and fur to critique binary social constructions—Nature/Culture, Animal/Human, Autobiography/Fiction, Physical/Mental, Intellectual/Emotional. Fragmenting the boundaries between these categories forms new connections and relationships that extend beyond the confines of mainstream social dualities.
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