For the mother of the many changing names: Work by Alexis de Chaunac
Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to announce For the mother of the many changing names, a solo exhibition by 2023-24 BOLT Resident Alexis de Chaunac.
This solo exhibition by artist Alexis de Chaunac, emerges as a meditation on the symbolic, atmospheric and pragmatic complexities of sustenance and its customs. The works that compose this exhibition, stretch and distort our perceptions of consumption, fermentation and digestion to the point of estrangement and disequilibrium. By disturbing elements from western spiritual iconographies and by reclassifying utilitarian objects, we are thrown into a system of vessels-and-surfaces-as-carriers of organic and inorganic processes of remembrance that allow for an ecosystemic understanding of subjectivity, community and ritual.
This exhibition would not have been possible without the support of Publican Quality Bread and Chicago award-winning baker Greg Wade.
Alexis de Chaunac (b. New York, NY, 1991) is a Mexican-French visual artist working between painting, drawing, collage and installation. His body of work is the result of his personal connection to his Mexican and French heritage, as well as his interwoven cultural histories as he uncovers layers of our collective experience.
Alberto Ortega Trejo is a Mexican artist, researcher and architectural designer. His work uses architecture, drawing, sculpture, writing and video to explore histories of indigeneity in architectural modernity, the production of extreme environments, the spatial politics of the colonial encounters in North America and the architectures of social experiments.
