Performance week: March 7 – March 13
The Making of a Portrait
performance by Tony Sims featuring Lynn Hunter
Sharp gallery Performance Schedule: 6-7 PM
Monday, March 7: Tony Sims
Tuesday, March 8: Tony Sims
Wednesday, March 9: Lynn Hunter
Thursday, March 10: Closed
Friday, March 11: Lynn Hunter
Saturday, March 12: Tony Sims
Sunday, March 13: Tony Sims
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Exhibition Narrative
The Making of a Portrait is a six-night performance series that investigates the atemporal nature of archives and documentation. Through atemporality, amplified through the quietness and stillness of images, one sees personal histories align, creating a unique opportunity to mourn the truths of the past, align ourselves with the present, and reclaim for the future. It is essential to examine this work counterintuitively, which decolonizes the interpretation of a subject’s history and that which is often examined as metanarratives in institutional belief. Meaning, it is essential to investigate history without words, for once history is transcribed through language, it becomes unjustifiable.
The Making of Portrait centers around seven images and creates an opportunity to examine these images as a contemplative experience. In other words, contemplation is communal and exists within a space between us and others. So images, seeming uncommunicative, speak subtle messages for those willing to engage.
Photo Documentation
BY VERÓNICA ROSAS
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SITE Sharp Gallery
37 S. Wabash Ave.
Chicago, IL, 60603
SITE 280 Gallery
280 S. Columbus Drive
Chicago, IL, 60603
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Gallery Hours (during exhibitions)
Monday – Friday 11am – 6pm
Saturday 11am – 3pm