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| LaMont Hamilton, Five on the Black Hand Side image via blogs.saic.edu/sugs. |
Curated by Felicia Mings
May 5 – May 30,
2014
School of the Art Institute of
Chicago
37 South Wabash Avenue
Chicago, IL
From blogs.saic.edu/sugs:
What We All
Long For is a group exhibition that recalls personal, social and
political histories that are read through traces of absence and presence.
Featured artists include Tejpal Ajji, LaMont Hamilton, Arièle Dionne-Krosnick,
and Marina Miliou-Theocharaki.
In Ajji’s film Auto-body Shop, a non-descript location
and mundane but surreal action troubles notions of narrative and ethnographic
film as modes to acquire definite meaning. Auto mechanics roll the tires of an
invisible car out of an auto-shop, down a busy street, and through a park,
reenacting actions akin to the movements of daily life.
Hamilton’s Five on the Black Hand Side also focuses on a routine action, but
one specific to the artist’s life: the dap. Hamilton creates an indexical
arrangement of images that traces the gestures and temporal permutations of
this historically significant African-American handshake.
Playing with
Tyng’s Toys recuperates the history of female architect Anne Griswald-Tyng,
who has long remained in the shadow of her lover and professional partner, Luis
Kahn. Dionne-Krosnick re-creates Tyng’s modular toys, modeling herself with and
after Tyng through a process of tactile learning, collaboration and play.
In Practicing the European Union Treaty, Miliou-Theocharaki questions
the Treaty’s efficacy through a performance of erasure to signify the
socio-economic duress that austerity measures have placed on the people of
Greece and the resulting displacement and death of bodies that “don’t belong.”
Gallery Talk
with LaMont Hamilton| Thursday, May 29,2014 5:00-6:00 p.m.
Join curator Felicia Mings and
artist LaMont Hamilton for an in-depth discussion on Hamilton’s photography
series Five on the Black Hand Side.
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