BeLonging. The Work of Indira Freitas Johnson
Solo Show at the Highland Park Art Center March 3-April 8
Opening Reception: March 3, 5:30 - 8:00 pm
BeLonging. The Work of Indira Freitas Johnson explores the expansive and multifaceted issue of “Belonging” that runs through race, religion, ethnicity, philosophy, and sexual orientation.
The word ‘Belonging’ is a heavy word for me, fraught with contradictions and dichotomies. Today, questions of home, homeland and displacement come up in multiple ways on the global terrain.
My work in this show explores concepts of self and belonging and represents among other things attachment, rejection, regeneration, and the landscape of the everyday. The works reinforce the idea that none of us have singular identities belonging simultaneously in different geographies and cultures.
Special thanks to Curator Caren Rudman for her immeasurable help and support. And to thee Illinois Arts Council for funding a catalog of this exhibition.
Concurrent exhibition, What Does Freedom Look Like?
I am so honored to have been invited to curate this show on the theme of Freedom.
How is freedom defined and expressed through visual form? What does it look like to the individual, the community, or the world? How does an artist express through a person, a place, a moment, an event or something which in some way represents an expression freedom? Often looked at in political terms, freedom of expression is foundational in a democracy. “Without it, it is not difficult for a culture to descend into authoritarianism, fascism, and dictatorship.”
The word ‘Belonging’ is a heavy word for me, fraught with contradictions and dichotomies. Today, questions of home, homeland and displacement come up in multiple ways on the global terrain.
My work in this show explores concepts of self and belonging and represents among other things attachment, rejection, regeneration, and the landscape of the everyday. The works reinforce the idea that none of us have singular identities belonging simultaneously in different geographies and cultures.
Special thanks to Curator Caren Rudman for her immeasurable help and support. And to thee Illinois Arts Council for funding a catalog of this exhibition.
Concurrent exhibition, What Does Freedom Look Like?
I am so honored to have been invited to curate this show on the theme of Freedom.
How is freedom defined and expressed through visual form? What does it look like to the individual, the community, or the world? How does an artist express through a person, a place, a moment, an event or something which in some way represents an expression freedom? Often looked at in political terms, freedom of expression is foundational in a democracy. “Without it, it is not difficult for a culture to descend into authoritarianism, fascism, and dictatorship.”
