Jan 19th 2011

Kerstin Honeit: Ambiguity is My Weapon and Bless this Mess

@ Gallery 400

400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607

Opening Wednesday, January 19th, from 5PM - 8PM

On view through Tuesday, April 12th

In her first solo US exhibition, Berlin-based Honeit presents photographic and video works exploring identity formation through the visible markers of familial legacy and gender construction. In assuming the identities of nine-half siblings she has never met, enacting four women’s accounts of their father’s funerals, and documenting women’s occupation of public space, Honeit considers the public and private borders of gender identification in flux.

Bless this Mess features work by with Edie Fake, Forced into Femininity, Robin Hustle and Lee Relvas. Mixing dreams, facts, and emotions in works in drawing, embroidery, installation, and performance, four artists look at queer bodies in and outside of messy systems. Shuttling across inside and outside, they get beautifully entangled in the queer chaos of it all.

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