Instructions on how to spread dandelions
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake Street, Oak Park, Il 60302
Opening Friday, June 6th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, June 27th
Instructions on how to spread dandelions
June 6 to June 27, 2025
Opening 6 to 9 PM
On view every Saturday from 2 PM to 6 PM
Pegah Bahador
Hyeseul Song
Yue Xu
Pegah Bahador (b. 1998, Tehran) practices doori o doosti, a Farsi term that translates to ‘distance and friendship,’ and emphasizes how the two coexist and (even sonically) intertwine. This epistolary practice resembles letters- and is itself a type of correspondence between them and their subjects. They work between language, drawing, and video making as traces of perception to focus on place and language dislocation, and the gradual deterioration and loss of opacity and information that follows it. They earned their BFA at Tehran University of Art and are currently pursuing their MFA in Art, Theory, Practice at Northwestern University.
Hyeseul Song (b.1995, Seoul) lives and works in Chicago. She earned a Bachelor of Architecture from Sungkyunkwan University in 2021 and a BFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023. She is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Chicago. Her works explore the areas where the built environment and nature overlap, where the inherent qualities of form and material intertwine, invoking an emotional resonance with the surroundings.
Yue Xu is an artist based in Chicago. She earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021 and her BFA from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in China. Her work has been exhibited at the National Museum of Mexican Art (2024), Chinese American Museum of Chicago (2024), 6018|North (2023), The Plan (2023), Chicago Art Department (2021), Terrain Biennial (2021), Mana Contemporary (2021), 062 (2020), and Comfort Station (2020) in Chicago, IL, USA; as well as the Guangdong Museum of Art (2017) and Xinzao Contemporary Art Center (2016) in Guangdong, China.
“Dreaming is a gesture whose duty is not to enlighten but to make blind. One that abstracts, and emerges from the abstract. Desire is flammable, fluid, and flimsy. Driven on winds, it travels through endless waters. If dandelions occupy all lands, does that mean that there are endless desires to hold in the heart?”
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