Love, Land, & Deception: Deconstructing the Patriarchy Exhibition
On Display at the from June 14th–July 26th 2024
Opening Reception
June 14, 6pm–10pm
Performances at 8pm

Opening Features Performances by:
• Cara Mastanduno
• Sunshine Lombre
• Sunflower Summit

Love, Land, and Deception: Deconstructing the Patriarchy is a collective exhibition at Chicago Art Department that aims to portray ways in which the patriarchy affects both the land and our bodies, a relationship that is inextricable; while also allowing us to imagine futures and ways of being to exist outside of this binary narrative and structure of deception.

It is this relationship with land that the patriarchy targets to keep us coping and healing individually which has kept us trudging alone in the treachery of its violence for thousands of years; because of that, the works in this show seek to propose new or ulterior modes of being as a larger community to combat this system of deception. This exhibition asks us to envision a world beyond “ownership” or “reclamation,” concepts that are inherently tied to domination, colonialism, and white supremacy.

As a group project, Love, Land, and Deception is a collective development of ideas about how the relationship with land is necessary for true liberation of our minds and bodies. It is a group expansion of concepts fleshed out in Black and Indigenous Futures exhibition by Akira, which expressed the healing energy that emanates from the hands who work the soil to harvest and sustain others. Restorative practices such as this may help us learn the true foundations of love and its power to transform from within.

Love, Land, and Deception group exhibition seeks to recognize deceptions of the patriarchy while revealing its individual and global impacts, and to introduce us to the possibilities of new realities. A renewed sense of love and a relationship with the land can forge the pathway to dismantling the system as a whole.

The exhibition seeks to: Explore and define the structure, system, and dynamics of the patriarchy; Investigate the patriarchies’ intersectional effects on different bodies, minds, communities, and the land; amPropose actions for remediation, healing, and deconstruction of the patriarchy at the individual, community, and/or systemic level.

EXHIBITION ARTISTS:

Giovanna Aguirre-Peresson @the_gap_art
Noa Alemán @noa_aleman
Lex Applewhite @dudegoo
Danielle Arend @theflowinart
Bria Bridges @subconshis
Luis Carrasco @luisifer.studio
Katie Cercone @parvati_slice
Juana Duran Charicata @arte_duran_chicago
San Chen @chensan_art
Jason Guzman @jguzmanstudio
Evelyn Rubi Hernandez @lagrimitas_rubi
Insidious Studios @insidioustudios
Akira Iyashikei (Light That Heals) @_indio___
Tai Kojro-Badziak @tkb.studio
Sara Laureano @drvgee
Kevin Lawler @kevinclawler
Sunshine Lombre @ladylombre
Catherine (Yiwen) Lyu @cath3rine_lv
Lisa Mannion @ukuladylisa
Victor Manuel Manzo Meneses @lotoloko
Dani Massey @neuroscipunk
Cara Mastanduno @caramastanduno
Toni Maugeri @tonimaugeriartwork
Mark Nelson @gringolandia22
Earica “EP” Parrish @erparrish_
Gabriel Patti @gjpatti2
Luna Rail @lunaxrail
Maria Requena @sunflowersummit
Amyia Ross @usb_cord
Kaltra Seferi @kaltra
Jane Thorn @zeldathorn
Jamie Tubbs @jamietubbsart
Hope Wood @wood_hoper
Araceli Zuniga @thisisnotaraceli

Thank you to the AnySquared Curators for all your work on this exhibition:

Cielo Estrella Aguilera @cieloestrella • Sara Laureano @drvgee • Cara Mastanduno @caramastanduno • Mario R. Salinas @goodnuff_creations • Sofia Brunwin @fiasunn • Pamela Trejo @pam.dsign • Insidious Studios @insidioustudios • Andrew Ramirez @mindsvoice • Akira Iyashikei @insidioustudios • Tracy Kostenbader @tracykostenbader

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Tags: Akira Iyashikei, Amyia Ross, Andrew Ramirez, Anysquared Projects, Araceli Zuniga, Bria Bridges, Cara Mastanduno, Catherine (Yiwen) Lyu, Chicago, Chicago Art Department, Cielo Estrella Aguilera, Dani Massey, Danielle Arend, Earica “EP” Parrish, Evelyn Rubi Hernandez, Gabriel Patti, Giovanna Aguirre Peresson, Hope Wood, Insidious Studios, Jamie Tubbs, Jane Thorn, Jason Guzman, Juana Duran Charicata, Kaltra Seferi, Katie Cercone, Kevin Lawler, Lex Applewhite, Lisa Mannion, Love Land & Deception: Deconstructing the Patriarchy Exhibition, Lower West Side, Luis Carrasco, Luna Rail, Maria Requena, Mario R. Salinas, Mark Nelson, Noa Aleman, Pamela Trejo, San Chen, Sara Laureano, Sofia Brunwin, Sunflower Summit, Sunshine Lombre, Tai Kojro-Badziak, Toni Maugeri, Tracy Kostenbader, Victor Manuel Manzo Meneses