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(Un)Avoidable Silence: Opening Reception

Fri, Sep 06

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Chicago

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(Un)Avoidable Silence: Opening Reception
(Un)Avoidable Silence: Opening Reception

Time & Location

Sep 06, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM

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

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Artists: Laleh Motlagh, Anastasia Sitnikov


On view September 6 - October 20


Displacement raptures one’s reality and creates a sense of discontinuity. This bottomless void is impossible to fill. No matter how hard one tries to assimilate, adapt to, or adopt the new life – something is still missing. You know you don’t belong. You don’t belong here, and you don’t belong there. The only place you belong is the gap you cannot fill. As a chronic disease, it never goes away, and you must learn how to live with it.

Some try to recreate their homeland in a new place and remain closely connected with other members of their diaspora, creating a quasi-word similar to virtual reality. You can notice that time never changes in such enclaves, it froze at the moment of their creation. Some imagine the old life has never happened to them – it was just…

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