Aesthetics of Power
@ ARC Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, October 3rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, October 24th
As tools of harm grow more remote, outsourced, and hidden, their impacts continue to rapidly shape our lives. While the mechanisms may be out of sight, their impact remains immediate, shaping the human experience, memories, and the cultural archive. This exhibition highlights work that responds to this contradiction: a world where power hides in plain sight, but leaves its unmistakable marks.
Aesthetics of Power, an exhibition juried by artist Mahwish Chishty, looks closely at how aesthetics can be used to express layered, quietly disruptive ideas. This exhibition features work that surprises, that reveals itself slowly, or that occupies the fragile space where beauty unsettles rather than soothes.
Artists in this exhibition reflect on how aesthetic interpretations carry the weight of history, how beauty might obscure or reveal power, and how what is finely wrought can also bear witness.
Exhibiting Artists: Parto & Pardis Ahmadpour, Rodrigo Azaola, Jane A Barrow, Rex Cassidy, Kyle Chaput, Lucas Cordes, Vincent Escareno, Morgan Ford Willingham, Tara Sabini, Mack Gingles, Matthew Girson, Briena Harmening, Yuliya Klochan, Roopa Kosuri, Jiselle Ramirez, Sajal Siwakoti, Yaning Xing, Shelly Zhang
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