MIKE SCHUH
Heavenly Choice
March 5 - April 10, 2015
30 E. Lake St., 11th Floor, Chicago, IL 60601
Curated by Jason Pallas.
Heavenly Choice
March 5 - April 10, 2015
30 E. Lake St., 11th Floor, Chicago, IL 60601
Curated by Jason Pallas.
Sculptural Installations That Activate Audience Interpretation
The President’s Gallery at Harold Washington College presents Heavenly Choice, a solo exhibition by Chicago artist Mike Schuh. Employing institutional materials and tropes to create his sculptural installations, Schuh’s work is not about any particular commentary. Rather, his work sets up a situation, a symbiosis between the artwork and the audience that allows for multiple meanings to emerge. The artist will present sculptures, appropriated images, and video work that seek a “near-functional value”, while remaining markedly out of place.
The exhibition title, Heavenly Choice, was cheekily taken from a brand of industrial toilet paper, but also contains allusions to an aspirational art that elevates beyond the embodied everyday. The artist continues to push the mind-body-spirit division by incorporating seemingly disjointed, dis-embodied parts in his work – a YouTube model obscuring his face with a ski mask, a pair of legs being flaunted by soldiers in a New York Times photograph, the miniaturized children from the movie Honey I Shrunk the Kids – but he gives us just a taste of these elements without insisting that they add up to anything.
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This is a place of work. For work. To go about your work. Set it into practice. You may choose to take a step, and you may choose to take another step, bud did you choose the structure of your skeleton, and did you choose the language you dream in?
You could look. You could construct. It’s all a negotiation. And it is all a renegotiation. Vomiting is not the same thing as regurgitating. A ghost doesn’t breath. And nothing is ever there if you remember to keep your eyes shut.
Busses can be found in front of, behind, or beside one another. See them. Feel them. They present themselves. You acknowledge them. Passengers don’t drive busses.
- Mike Schuh, March 2015
INSTALLATION IMAGES
You could look. You could construct. It’s all a negotiation. And it is all a renegotiation. Vomiting is not the same thing as regurgitating. A ghost doesn’t breath. And nothing is ever there if you remember to keep your eyes shut.
Busses can be found in front of, behind, or beside one another. See them. Feel them. They present themselves. You acknowledge them. Passengers don’t drive busses.
- Mike Schuh, March 2015
INSTALLATION IMAGES
