Lan Li and Emily Heneghan: Patching Up Oblivion
@ Color Club
4148 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Opening Friday, November 21st, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, December 14th
Patching up Oblivion
Artworks by Lan Li and Emily Heneghan
Organized by Josh Dihle
Hosted by Color Club, Chicago, IL
Patching up Oblivion is a duo exhibition by Lan Li and Emily Heneghan. In this exhibition, dynamics of stretched metal, building, falling, and obliterating are established amongst the conception of a mis-matched memory. Through a variety of media, the artists explore what happens as our memories warp, and reconstruct themselves over time- exploring this plane as an abstracted visual landscape.
The 3D works move both forward and backward through emotional volume towards a stretched out state of mind that is ever limber and in beautiful ruins: where everything can be a form of play. The 2D works, layered with mixed media and diverse textures, serve as relics from the mechanics of a dream. Providing opportunity to project one’s own subconscious onto a psychological geology.
As an idea from Svetlana Boym’s The Future of Nostalgia describes, “Reflective nostalgia does not pretend to rebuild the mythical place called home; it is enamored of distance, not of the reverent itself.”
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