Join Villa Albertine for the inauguration of Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris, a pop-up exhibition at BUILD Chicago in the Austin neighborhood, to meet the artists and curators in person.
Part of a multi-site project produced by Villa Albertine and its City/Cité program, this exhibition showcases the works of photographers Sasha Phyars-Burgess and Karim Kal. Both artists embrace traditional black-and-white photography to explore the urban environment and the communities that live within it. The artists both have photographs on display that were created in Greater Paris, while many of the images by Phyars-Burgess were created in Austin from 2018–19 while she worked with two local Heartland Alliance programs, READI Chicago and Mae Suites, through the Diane Dammeyer Fellowship in Photographic Arts and Social Issues.
A conversation with the two artists takes place at 7:00 pm, moderated by exhibition curators Carl Fuldner and Pascal Beausse, Head of the Photographic Collection of the Centre national des arts plastiques in Paris. The program is followed by a reception.
Opening Passages is a city-wide photographic exhibition featuring recent works by ten American and French artists who are interested in the dynamic social landscapes of Chicago and Paris. Selections from all participating artists are currently on view together downtown at the Chicago Cultural Center, while site-specific installations like this one highlight intersections between artists whose work resonates with similar themes or particular areas within each city.
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An initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art in partnership with artists and organizations across the city, Art Design Chicago is a series of events and exhibitions that highlight the city’s artistic heritage and creative communities.
