Oct 30th 2011

WISHYOUWEREHERE

@ ADDS DONNA

4223 W. Lake, Chicago IL, 60614

Opening Sunday, October 30th, from 4PM - 7PM

On view through Sunday, January 1st

Adds Donna is pleased to announce the second installment of WISHYOUWEREHERE, a full-season group exhibition aimed at determining how and when content begins (and potentially never ends).

As the title for countless songs, albums, books, and films, Wish You Were Here cannot avoid the taint of association. For this WISHYOUWEREHERE, work will get a second chance. Viewers who attend throughout the season will be able to experience work that is physically present simultaneously along work that manifests as the unknown, or as work disappears, as memory or remainder. Participants in this extended exhibition not only have the autonomy to enter and exit at will, but also to exist in accord with the variables present as much as absent. Work will come, go, and sometimes initiate a rubric all it’s own.

Since the initial opening in September, the works in WISHYOUWEREHERE have shifted and accumulated. They’ll continue to enter and exit throughout the durration of the exhibition, creating voids where pieces are missed as well as where new works are anticipated. This format of perpetual change is meant to encourange prolonged examination and supply an enriched temporal experience. The oscillation of content in relation to cultural climate, human condition, and other external forces can be expected to negotiate the terms of “concept” while experiencing life in the present. How can the promise of a void do more?

Though our public receptions mark large changes to the progression of work in time, viewers are highly encouraged to attend during open gallery hours as well (Sundays 1 -5 pm), as things are constantly in flux. The diligent viewer will be rewarded. A third reception will take place on December 4th, 2011 from 4 – 7 pm.

WISHYOUWEREHERE opened on September 1, 2011 and Closes January 1, 2012. Upcoming receptions on October 30, 2011 and December 4th, 2011 from 4 – 7 pm.

Open Sundays 1 to 5 and by appointment.

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