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Autoethnography

Fri, Mar 12

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Chicago

On view from March 12th - April 25th Curated by Adina Jade Cosden With works by Haerim Lee and Yasmin Spiro

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Autoethnography
Autoethnography

Time & Location

Mar 12, 2021, 7:00 PM

Chicago, 1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago, IL 60622, USA

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Autoethnography is the result of a collaborative effort between Yasmin Spiro and Haerim Lee. The exhibition features new works from both of the artists’ ongoing series. Drawing on frameworks of social politics, urban planning, and ethnographic research, Autoethnography is an exploration of both intimate and societal senses of identity, belonging, and memory. Lee is originally from Korea, and Spiro from Jamaica—both artists explore notions of self, sense of place, belonging and liminality, through these bodies of work. Yasmin Spiro’s sculptures and multisensory installations in her Safety Series and Edge of Time evoke intimate remembrances of place and being, and explore notions of safety both on a personal, intimate level as well as in a larger societal sense. Throughout her Safety Series, Yasmin Spiro explores weaving as a visual and conceptual link between vernacular architecture and the history of Jamaican craft. Zugalum, seen in the show is inspired specifically by domed structures…

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