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Terrain Vague: The Promised Land

Fri, May 20

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Heaven Gallery

Within a futurism context, artists Teresita Carson and Cydney Lewis seek to expand on what terrain vague can be—to reflect on potential meanings of non-places.

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Terrain Vague: The Promised Land
Terrain Vague: The Promised Land

Time & Location

May 20, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM

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

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“One day, the need for space makes itself felt … It comes to us without warning. And never goes away. The irresistible wish for a space of our own. A mobile space which can take us anywhere. A space where everything is to hand and nothing is lacking. Already, space is inside you.”  – Marc Augé

You have to destroy a mountain to create a building. The city, as one big pile of stuff, can create suffocating and overwhelming anxiety. Gaia carries our ever-growing burden of plastic and poison. Cement trucks churn as the debris from razing and demolition accumulate somewhere—over there. The capitalist nightmare has mutated into surveillance capitalism that is difficult to escape. So where can we find non-places to hide in plain sight—to run away from the algorithm and what it’s selling? 

Terrain vague is defined as an urban, empty or abandoned space in which events have taken…

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