Jan 11th 2019

Salome Chasnoff + Meredith Zielke: Present Absence

@ Uri-Eichen Gallery

2101 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608

Opening Friday, January 11th, from 6PM - 9PM

On view through Friday, January 25th

PRESENT ABSENCE is a five-channel video installation that personalizes the lives of people killed by Chicago Police. These stories, generated from long-form interviews with family members, invite viewers to experience those murdered not as cases or statistics, as sensational media stories or police cover-up tales – but as unique human beings who made life-changing contributions to others, who are loved and mourned. For every story, five family members are in virtual conversation, each featured in their own screen to offer their piece of the completed picture. Present Absence uses multichannel storytelling in an intimate living room setting to facilitate deep listening and proffer paths to radical empathy.

Join us for the opening and panel discussion addressing resistance to Chicago police violence – featuring representatives of No Cop Academy, Invisible Institute, and Ronald Johnson Foundation.

Salome Chasnoff is a filmmaker and installation artist who is inspired by the enlightening, humanizing and healing capacities of storytelling. For 3 decades, she has maintained a collaborative social practice and exhibition career embracing and interrogating the indivisibility of the making of art and the making of relationship. Her installations aspire to create sacred spaces for community healing.

Meredith Zielke is a filmmaker and cinematographer. She works mainly in experimental documentary features and large-scale video installation. Her films have showed in numerous national and international festivals, conferences, galleries, educational institutions and community centers.

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