Prairie is pleased to present ‘Daisy Chain’ a solo exhibition from Amina Ross opening this Saturday from 7-10pm. In conjunction with the show, Amina will be releasing a series of webcam performances titled ‘2:22’ on ACRETV.org. The first episode will air during the opening reception, subsequent episodes will be released Sundays at 2:22pm. The exhibition runs from September 22 – October 28, 2018.

Dear Lover — I’ve traveled across space, time, and layers of machinery to meet you here. I both weep at the distance and know there is none. The moment you read these words, a collapse. This collapse, a future technology. This collapse, ancestral magic recovered.

I call you Lover not for the ways we’ve touched. You most likely will leave this earth and never know my face. But what you make here, I feel beneath my feet. What you speak here, I eat and breathe. By the end of this life, you will have built and broken my body thousands of times.

This intimacy, a future technology. This intimacy, ancestral magic recovered. We are bound material — digital, cellular — functioning as one.

This is a singular human kind of love. A love that builds and breaks the earth millions of times. There is no distance. We are what we extract from and destroy. To what end?

Lover, we could build a home. Anywhere we lay, our wedding bed. This is my proposal. My plea. Will you be tender?

Sincerely yours.

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Daisy chain. A flower garland, a wiring sequence, a sex configuration, a climbing failsafe, a synthesizer series, a web of lovers, the links between us, visible and celebrated, hidden and unknown, forgotten. Together, an interdependence. A unit. A functional operation. Daisy Chain. A solo exhibition featuring new work by undisciplined artist Amina Ross, claiming love as recovered ancestral practice and future technology. Intimacy as life hack.

– Kemi Alabi

Amina Ross is an undisciplined creator. They work across mediums, shaping spaces that celebrate darkness, physicality and love through language, video installations, sculpture, and curatorial engagements.

Amina studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has exhibited work at venues throughout the United States. Amina has spoken on panels and taught workshops at a wide range of events and venues including Wayne State University, the College Arts Association Conference, the Alphawood Foundation, and Women’s Center for Creative Work among others. Amina was a part of Chicago Artist Coalition’s BOLT Residency in 2015-2016. They co-run a black and femme centering space in the Little Village, Chicago, called F4F. Amina is a co-founder of 3rd Language (2011-2015), queer arts collective. Additionally Amina runs the ongoing workshop and participatory performance series ‘Beauty Breaks’.

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