Metempsychosis
@ TOSSAROSE Art Collective
643 W 31st St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Saturday, November 16th, from 6:30 PM - 12 am
Opening November 16th, TOSSAROSE presents its second “petal” show: Metempsychosis, a pop-up gallery show featuring nine emerging Chicago-based artists. The show features 8 paintings, 2 sculptures, 2 site-specific installations, and 3 performances/ documentation, all located at the former church in Bridgeport at 643 West 31st Street, Chicago, IL.
The namesake of the show, Metempsychosis, is the belief that at death, the soul passes into another body. Hereby, the soul is immortal, and a cycle of reincarnation and death in the transition from one body to another is the fate of all men ad nauseam. Its definition can be restricted further: “The place where the soul and its new body dwell must be, at least in part, this world; the new body must be acquired for more than a temporary period; and the soul, which passes from one body to another, must be that which creates an individual.”(cite) Given that the show location takes place in a former church repurposed as an art space prior to its demolition, the action of the show itself is the death throw directly before the spirit of the space, and thereby, the show transitions onwards into another form.
The show is a place of mourning and celebration for the impending loss of the space and the effect of the works. The aforementioned works reflect upon a plethora of issues and ideas: apprehension and loss of memory, transfiguration, the dialectic of the dead and living, the nature of consciousness, etc. All of which are footnoted and strung together in their reflection of one state of being, oftentimes in favor of another. Transition, before, at the moment, or post, is the central focus that pervades across the entire show.
The nature of TOSSAROSE is built upon its concept of decentralized art spaces, as though the collective itself is continually going through its own state of metempsychosis, forming, disintegrating, and reforming from space to space, reinventing itself every time with the same spirit of the interior.
Featured Artists: Elijah Lee Ross, Harry Lee, Calvin Guo, Zeynep Karahasan, William Wang, Taylor Ekern, Koki Kin, Pruthvish Dangat, and Alexander Breus
Second Petal: Metempsychosis will be opening November 16th, at 6:30 pm, 643 W 31st Street, Chicago, IL.
At 8:30 – 9:00 pm, the after-party featuring a guest set from DJ Volkner will begin.
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Tags: Alexander Breus, Calvin Guo, Elijah Lee Ross, Harry Lee, Koki Kin, Metempsychosis, Pruthvish Dangat, Taylor Ekern, TOSSAROSE, TOSSAROSE Art Collective, TOSSAROSE Second Petal: Metempsychosis, William Wang, Zeynep Karahasan
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