Apr 11th 2025

Laleh Motlagh: Cultivating Dispersal

@ Chicago Art Department

1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608

Opening Friday, April 11th, from 6PM - 9PM

In Cultivating Dispersal, Laleh Motlagh explores the intimate and complex relationship between humans and the natural world. Working across drawing, painting, performance, video, and installation, Motlagh engages in quiet collaborations with non-human life—particularly plants—to reflect on themes of identity, belonging, and the porous boundaries between species.

Through this multidisciplinary practice, she invites us to consider how dispersal—of seeds, of people, of ideas—can be both a survival strategy and a form of rootedness. Cultivating Dispersal offers a poetic meditation on how we inhabit the world in relation to the more-than-human.

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