Chicago Art Club Gift Mother’s tongue pressed on the grinding stoneJamaican-born Los Angeles artist Jamaica’s exhibition Cosmo Whytenow lasts until April 2. In the display of works across multiple mediums, Whyte finds clarity in the haze of memory and explores the inevitable connection between individuals and collectives through the idea of wonder.
Whyte’s later father’s architectural archives were used as a starting point to ask about the behavior of seeing: “What is a witness? What does it mean to be one?” In the process, a new layer of meaning was revealed, and the artist adopted a postmodernist approach to conduct it. Images, reprocessing photos to reveal alternative environments.
Outstanding figures include “Now 4×4 Timer/Quiet, Don’t Explain” (2023), a multi-fold steel sculpture with hand-painted beaded curtains revealing tender black and white portraits; besides the playful and nervous “Stirring 2 – Wei Le and Griot” (2023), where heavy, pixelated smoke comes behind a lively, acrobatic scene that will bring somewhere (rather than face to face) full focus.
“In Whyte’s hands, these statements are neither ironic nor sensual. Instead, they point the audience to self-reflection and awareness of the broader connections throughout geography and generations.”
Mother’s tongue pressed on the grinding stone join Panafrica in ChicagoThis is a series of citywide events and exhibitions that explore the themes of freedom, solidarity and location through the voices of African and African diaspora.
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