YOU WILL NOT SEE ME
‘Sugar Lovers’
by Ana Maria Millán
on view
Saturday, Sept. 16, 10am-2pm
CAD is excited to host ‘Sugar Lovers’ by Ana Maria Millán on Saturday, September the 16th from 10am – 2pm in our West Gallery.
Ana Maria Millan’s work embodies a personal, sometimes skeptical, at times humorist absurdist tone, within the narrative realm of video. Her work seeks to explore the different forms of transmission of information in relation to sub-cultures, in relation to ideas of violence and to discourses on exclusion. Ana positions her inquiry within local narratives that may, at times, be considered dysfunctional. In her work titled ‘Sugar Lovers’ on view in Chicago Architecture Biennale’s video program, Ana uses the image of the Colombian worker ant to examine its use in American media, pop-culture and sci-fi fiction films.
Ana Maria Millan’s work has been shown in La Tertulia Museum, Cali 2015, Misol Foundation, Bogota 2014; El Matadero, Madrid 2015; Miami Art Basel, Miami 2014; Institute of Vision, Bogota 2014; International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Cartagena 2014; Cuenca Biennial, Cuenca 2014; SFMOMA 2012; Creative Time, New York 2011, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz 2011; AUTO-KINO! presented by Phil Collins, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin 2009; and the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 2005.
‘You Will Not See Me’ brings together artists, performers and filmmakers to investigate the reception of video work in and through Chicago’s unchartered, unconventional art spaces.
Curated by Pia Singh and Jefferson Godard of Aspect/Ratio Projects, the satellite exhibition investigates our relation to time, space and Chicago’s urban sprawl, as we present a select showcase of video work embedded within locally specific histories, connecting works to the cultural context of each selected site, in an attempt to further an exchange of artistic dialogue between Chicago and artists from other parts of the world. In this exhibition, different sites are temporarily activated through video work, creating a urban video laboratory that invites visitors to neighborhoods cultural centers they may otherwise miss, nor understand, as sites for extending conversations we often situate in the visual arts. These video interventions will serve the public as well as the cultural spaces they are exhibited in, in order to place a spotlight on the agency of video as a medium of political resistance.
Artists on view at other sites include Ashish Avikunthak, Wim Delvoye, Mika Rottenberg, and Sterling Ruby.