Thank You for Today’s Company: Artist Talk
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, FL 2, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, September 21st, from 12PM - 1PM
On view through Sunday, October 27th
Artists: David Ese Gagoh, Viktoria Horpudottir, John Wright
To exist is to possess an objective reality, an obligatory continuation of time spent on this earth by our ancestors. To live is to honor. AS individuals proud to find sanctuary in the African Diaspora, histories of resistance and rebellion influence and construct every single decision we make. We are alive, and with our predecessors watching over us, togetherness and acceptance is key to survival. The pain of existence is as great an adversary as the world around one.
Is my hair free flowing, or has the moon taken control of its movement. Has god planned every minute thought, or are my ideologies my own. The absence of free will as a coping strategy haunts one’s view of creation. Predestination reattributes the individual’s successes to an external being, stripping one of their individuality. Spaces, conversations, and understandings seek to regain power in this struggle against the plane of eternity. For Black peoples to live in the now rejects Western religious philosophies and reworks the foundational African diasporic notions that precede us. Gagoh, Horpudottir, and Wright seek to form spaces with the intention of sharing experience, group healing, and cementing Black humanity as divine iconography. Through physical textures we display the humanity of the artworks, constructing parallels between body and medium. The artistic compositions of “Thank You for Today’s Company” show daily black life, envisioning futures where we look down on our eventual descendants.
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