Corpora/Simulacrum
May 17 - 25, 2025 | Tree House | Chicago, IL
Artists : Abby Zoe Giurfa, Andy Cordos, Angelina Han, Angie Darianna Barajas, Dyllan Quan Champion, Eden Rodriguez, Elio Agustin, Erika Diaz Candanedo, Esme Ibarra, Jane Dunn, Joey Lin, Junehee Hong, Lila Steinbach, Miles Eden, MJ Yu, Montana Russell, Naomi Hamlin-Navias, Nat Ware, Phoebe Guyuzi Chen, Psyiko Kim, Raffaella Gallo, Satona Liu, Sayeda Misa Sourour, Spencer Grogan.
Curated by Angelina Han & Elio Agustín
How does the narrative of the “living body” exist beyond flesh - within absence, within borders, within memory? In an era of digital abstraction, political displacement, and social alienation, our relationship to our bodies becomes increasingly fragmented. We are estranged not only from our own forms but from the landscapes in which we exist. Whether through the experience of exile, the constraints of identity, the performance of labor, or the shifting perception of the self, the body is a site of rupture and reconnection.
Where do we go when our bodies are no longer where we left them? How do we belong to a form that refuses to be static? If the body is continuously written and rewritten, then perhaps its truest state is one of fluidity—always shifting, never fully defined, yet persistently present.
[Corpora/Simulacrum] serves as an invitation for all artists to engage with the corpora as a mirror– a simulation– an individual body, a collective archive of gestures, movements, voices, and narratives, and an abyss in which we reflect our mortality upon. Reconcile this ever-changing state and permit ourselves to be free of certainty or definition.
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