Knots
@ Heaven Gallery
1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Fl, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 31st, from 7PM - 11PM
On view through Sunday, September 20th
Artist Talk: August 30th, 12-1 PM
Artist(s): Azi Khastoo, Rashel Gordin, Yvette Kaiser Smith, Victoria Fuller, Lauren Iacoponi
Knots brings together artists who use tying, looping, weaving, binding, and repetition as both material process and metaphor. Across sculpture, fiber, found objects, mathematical systems, bodily forms, and participatory performance, the exhibition explores the knot as a structure of connection and tension—something that holds, protects, restricts, remembers, and transforms.
Long used as tools of survival, craft, and labor, knots carry rich symbolic meanings. They can signify the power of unity while also suggesting pressure, obligation, and entanglement. Requiring both control and release, knots embody tension, resiliency, and the potential to unravel. For some artists, knots emerge through systems of geometry and organic forms; for others, they speak to the joy of family, heritage and community, the challenge of migration and the anxiety that simmers beneath it all. Together, the works reveal how individual strands become larger networks of relationships, histories, and shared experience.
By foregrounding the knot as both form and metaphor, the exhibition invites viewers to consider the forces that bind us, the structures that sustain us, and what must be loosened, repaired, or reimagined.
Knot United is an interactive installation about connection, participation, and community.
Using rope and knots as a shared language, the artists invite us to contribute to an evolving tapestry by tying a knot of our own. Each knot represents an individual action, but together they form a larger network shaped by everyone who takes part.
As the work grows, it becomes a visible map of collective presence, illustrating how individual lives and experiences intersect.
Knot United challenges us to consider our place within a larger community and reminds us that even small gestures can contribute to something larger than ourselves.
Knot United Performance will begin at 8pm opening night, July 31st
For Immediate Release:
Contact: Alma Wieser
Heaven Gallery 1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Floor
Phone: 312-502-2230
Email: heavengalleryinfo@gmail.com
Website: heavengallery.com
Knots
Opening: July 31st, 7-11 PM
On view: July 31st – September 20th
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Tags: Azi Khastoo, Chicago, Heaven Gallery, Lauren Iacoponi, Rashel Gordin, Victoria Fuller, West Town, Yvette Kaiser Smith
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