Jul 18th 2025

Sébastien Johnson: Gilt Complex

@ VSG Contemporary

673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL 60642

Opening Friday, July 18th, from 6PM - 9PM

On view through Saturday, September 6th

About the exhibition…. directly from the artist:

This exhibition specifically is a collection of recreations of European paintings that were made in the 17th to 19th centuries. An era where paintings were made as a form of propaganda to project power, wealth, and control. These works were embedded with the values of their time: colonialism, patriarchy, and imperial dominance. By revisiting and reworking them today, the exhibition asks what happens when the images that once upheld empire and order are abstracted and broken apart. What remains is hopefully a complex space of reflection, discomfort, beauty and a new way of considering the icons that have shaped our culture.

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