Sabina Oehninger: Soft Skills
@ Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, July 9th, from 10AM - 6PM
SOFT SKILLS
One-day solo outdoor exhibition by Sabina Oehninger, current artist-in-residence from Switzerland, with a performance at 4pm by Art Union Humanscape Duo: Ayako Kato, dance and Jason Roebke, bass.
With Soft Skills, Sabina Oehninger’s new body of work, terry cloth (the common bath towel) has been collaged anew. Using a set of rules that the viewer may never quite understand, but immediately feels, one is intrinsically “touched” by their mesmerizing qualities. The works dance in front of you as they grow, they gain weight, stretch, fluff their colors, and reject the functionality of their origins. Each piece radiates impulsively with its own tone and constructive cohesion. Some are moody, some energetic, some perhaps too serious?
As a group, or as individual works, they share a newfound space, a fuzzy kind of syntax; a guiding light for their formal arrangements, which are both curious and warm. When you come near, a familiarity is already at play. You may understand the material gesture, but what about their divergent vocabularies? These works charmingly taunt you to rearrange your inner images, first with your mind’s eye and then with your mind’s skin.
If it rains >> Rain date: July 15
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Tags: Art Union Humanscape Duo, Ayako Kato, Chicago, Comfort Station, Jason Roebke, Logan Square, Sabina Oehninger, Sabina Oehninger: Soft Skills, Soft Skills
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