Join us at the Chicago Art Department for Contra Corriente, an annual festival that brings together artists, environmentalists, and community organizers to resist ecological racism through exhibitions and interactive programs. 

Festival Exhibition:

Eden Through A Glory Hole (June 13 - July 25)
As political pundits ponder the “eradication” of trans lives from public space, Eden Through A Glory Hole conjures and asserts an expansive, ecstatic vision of gay and trans belonging to community, culture, and cosmos. Peeking through portals, key holes, glory holes, and sweaty pores, we see glimpses of a fantastical parallel reality that is already thriving, hidden in plain sight.

Telling stories across print, textile, and ceramic mediums, together we re-appropriate, invert, and extravagantly elaborate on symbolic vocabularies of power and hegemony, making way for a new world to emerge through the cracks in the concrete. Drawing from our divergent formative mythologies, carried through time and diaspora, we meet in the erotic, imaginal dreamspace and reveal the secret portal to the city’s underground.