2021 MFA Thesis Show Two: ​Ordinary Horrors

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Organized by artist and curator Astria Suparak

The second MFA class of 2021 Thesis Exhibition in Studio Arts, ​Ordinary Horrors features ​Sonya Bogdanova, Asya Dubrovina, ​Nick Jackson & Tyner White, ​Austin McCann, ​Laleh Motlagh, ​Anastasia Sitnikova.

Ordinary Horrors​ includes poetry, performance, drawings, installations, sculptures, photos, and moving images set to the thrumming sounds of the eerie and the transcendent. The artists in the exhibition intrepidly traverse relationships, generations, and species; they amplify the stories of others and draft new ones, and they imagine personal utopias. Their works are informed by trauma repeated, catastrophes impending, relentless capitalism and totalitarianism, the forbidden, and the sticky depths of grief and shame. Are we haunted by the past or out of sync with time? Can vulnerabilities become assets? These artists are gathering in kitchens and libraries, washing the salt out of wounds, coping, and plotting their escapes.

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MFA Thesis Talk

Friday, April 23
6–7:30 pm
Zoom

Join us for an MFA Thesis Talk! MFA students exhibiting in the second of three MFA exhibitions will discuss their work, practices and more. Please visit the Zoom link at the start of the event time.
https://uic.zoom.us/j/85978807644?pwd=TUxuRG94UVpuMmVyODZqd2JZQ3VYdz09