Attunements and Formations is an invitation by Sebastian Bruno-Harris, Sofía Fernández Díaz, and Kushala Vora to witness, respond to, and play with each other’s practices, as a collaborative exercise in improvisation through shared material inquiries. The exhibition features artworks across media including sculpture, drawing, painting, weaving, video, and installation, unified by the three artists’ unique ways of foraging, arranging, and altering found and natural materials. Creating in response to each other’s works, Sebastian, Sofia, and Kushala aim to expand a shared line of thinking, one that encourages slowing down and close inspection. By attuning to each other’s approaches to finding, altering, and adapting objects into new and strange formations, they foster new inquiries and possibilities, allowing their internal states to shift and resonate with each other’s inner worlds. The exhibition is an effort to highlight how distinct modes of attention and association-making happen in relation to everyday objects and environments, by exploring how shared sensibilities snap into place, providing methods for noticing and contemplating the endless, rhizomatic ways in which things are connected.
Chicago Art Department | April 12th - May 24th 2024
