The city’s hidden underground Pedway is getting a temporary new art gallery featuring exhibitions with colorful video portraits of nature and pop-up performances.
The gallery, Space p11, will feature works focusing on art, architecture, and design. It’s directed by David L. Hays, associate professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Jonathan Solomon, director of interior architecture and designed objects at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
“We are interested in what unique things can happen in the Pedway because of all the qualities it already has.” Solomon said in an announcement. “Its spatial complexity and eclectic richness make it a fascinating site for exploration and discovery, the perfect place to open an exhibition space dedicated to shared agency.”
The gallery design by Chicago-based Future Firm will play on retail and shops by incorporating window displays and neon signs to grab the attention of commuters, students, and tourists. The two temporary exhibitions scheduled for the space are a video series from Lindsay French and performances from artists Lindsay French, Jeff Kolar, and Laura Chiaramonte.
Designed by Chicago architects @FutureFirm, the gallery appropriates methods of retail display—from picture windows to neon signage—to reach an audience of commuters, residents, students, and explorers pic.twitter.com/cnJLBVfzpC
— Forty-Five (@45journal) November 27, 2018
Phytovision is a digital video that artistically explores how plants like white pine, hemlock, fern and forest flowers perceive their environment and the light around them. It opens December 3, 2018 and ends January 10, 2019.
Another part of Space P11’s inaugural show is Short-Cuts which hopes to bring more people to the Pedway with dance performances, a movie screening, and artist discussions. Jeff Kolar will talk about his project to install abandoned phone booths in the Pedway that play calming music and Art Institute students will showcase their work from a semester of observation in the underground pathway. This part of the exhibition will last from December 3 to 14.
Other planned events include performances, talks, and reading groups which will take place from December until April 2019. Visitors will be able to view the art while the Pedway is open from 4 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Saturday.
The inaugural exhibition, Phytovision, the work of @FrenchLindsey, facilitates phytocentric experiences, reworking digital video for plant perception and “quietly opens a number of modes of perception beyond the clear distinctions of our human senses” pic.twitter.com/edSWRti9qD
— Forty-Five (@45journal) November 27, 2018
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