Heaven Gallery, Chicago, USA
Curated by Bianca Abdi-Boragi
Vector is a group exhibition that presents works across painting, sculpture, video, and poetry that employ repetition as a common thread to generate patterns and mutagenic forms, containing elements and images inspired by landscapes, photos, and media to create a dialogue addressing territory, power, boundaries, and the biological and social ecologies within which they occur. These artworks are exercises in subverting and crossing realities. This selection highlights themes of assimilation, labor, and alienation, brought by an array of artists reflecting on territorial or body boundaries.
With
Bianca Abdi-Boragi, Zuleyka Alejandro, Elliott de Cesare, Michael Eckblad, Selva Aparicio, Carlos Franco, Julien Gardair, Robert Balun, Lizzy de Vita, Keren Anavy, Virginia Luna Montgomery, Whitney Oldenburg, Natalia Nakazawa, Leila Seyedzadeh, Nazanin Noroozi, Masha Vlasova, Young Joo Lee, Jamie Martinez, Ellis Jake Solie, Sa’dia Rehman, and Bonam Kim.
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Heaven Gallery website
French-born, Brooklyn-based artist Julien Gardair makes carpets, paper cutouts, paintings, sculptures, video, and everything in between. This proclivity for smooth sail between forms in context of specific sites globally paired with his insatiable explorations, make his body of work versatile, whimsical and layered.
