Context 2024 @ Filter Space

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Context 2024 @ Filter Space

February 24th, 2024 by fstop

Context 2024
March 22nd – April 27th, 2024

Opening Reception: March 22nd, 6 – 9 PM

“We are inundated on the daily with an ocean of images, yet the clarity, finesse, and power of the photographs in Context 2024 speak to a collective desire for making work that means something, that can cut across the blaring noise. Across portraiture, documentary, landscape, and experimental work, the artists in this exhibition show us that in these troubled and troubling times, photography retains the capacity to reveal, to connect, to delight, and to bear witness, even as the medium continues to evolve and shape-shift.

The resurgence of history as a key photographic concern shapes several documentary projects that trace the origins of our collective myth-making; others bear witness to who we are and how we live, both together and apart from each other. Wry, lucid, and penetrating portraits and self-portraits powerfully assert presence and subjectivity and invite us to see identity formation as a subtle, complex, and shifting phenomenon. Some reveal cracks in the American dream, others chart complex global histories, and others still link us to our attachments and our losses, both personal and collective.

Pictures, of course, accrue meaning over time and through social engagement. Several artists cannily reuse found imagery or draw on established pictorial traditions to expand meaning. Some interrogate or interrupt photographic conventions and materials as a way to call attention to urgent political, social and environmental issues. Other artists carefully conjure an intimate, tangible sense of place, inviting us to both consider our relationship to our environment and imagine alternative ways of being.”

—Sarah Kennel

Artists:
Sara Abbaspour
Jimmie Allen
Peter Cochrane
Matt Eich
Charlotta Hauksdottir
Khim Mata Hipol
R. J. Kern
Tom Lau
Denise Laurinaitis
Tanya Lunina
Andriana Nativio
Laura Allen Noel
Luigino (Louie) Palu
Jason Pevey
John Prince
Jared Ragland
Astrid Reischwitz
Kathryn Rodrigues
Maggie Shannon
Forrest Simmons
Mitchell Squire
Constance Thalken
Brad Ziegler

Filter Space
1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 207
Chicago, IL

Location: Chicago, Illinois Type: Exhibition

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