The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Announces SPRING 2023 exhibitions

 The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Announces SPRING 2023 exhibitions

CHICAGO - The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago announces the following exhibitions for Spring 2023.
Duane Linklater: mymothersside
March 11 – September 3 Bergman Family Gallery

Duane Linklater: mymothersside features the work of Duane Linklater (b. 1976, Moose Factory, Ontario), whose multimedia practice addresses the contradictions of contemporary Indigenous life within—and beyond—settler systems of knowledge, representation, and value. Opening the institution of “the museum” to Indigenous content, the exhibition brings together sculptures, video works, and digital prints on linen from the past decade of the artist’s practice, as well as new adaptations of installations that he has continually revisited and revised.

With his draped and folded tepee cover paintings, Linklater transforms the semicircular canvas wrapping of the traditional Cree dwelling into a support for digitally printed imagery that he tints with natural dyes. Appearing amid these culturally significant forms and materials,
references to the artist’s family, childhood home, and favorite bands, films, and garments suggest an expansive constellation of attributes that defies reductive notions of identity. Linklater counters the
ongoing processes of erasure, extraction, and dispossession that impede Indigenous people’s potential with what he calls “a zone of non-interference”—a space of sovereignty and self- determination through art.

This exhibition is organized by Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator Carla
Acevedo-Yates. 
Mona Hatoum: Early Works 
March 28 – November 26

Early in her career, Mona Hatoum’s work took the body as both subject and material. Using performance as her primary medium, her works from this period afforded her an inexpensive and direct
way of communicating with her audience, often employing technology like video and radio in innovative ways. In this exhibition, three key performance works—all produced in the 1980s, and all part of the MCA Collection—engage themes that continue to be fundamental to her practice, from the body to the impetus to connect with viewers. Twenty-five years after hosting Hatoum’s first US solo museum exhibition in 1997, the MCA is pleased to revisit three foundational works from the vantage of the present.

This exhibition is organized by Pamela Alper Associate Curator Bana Kattan.
Frictions
April-May

Taking place at the MCA throughout the months of April through May,
Frictions will be a suite of in-person performances and performance-driven video works created by three artists—Will Rawls (Brooklyn-based), Shamel Pitts | TRIBE (Brooklyn-based), and Barak adé
Soleil (formerly of Chicago, now based in London). Each artist will explore questions of temporality, movement, and the frictions
they inhabit through different relationships to pace, rhythm, and presence. The series will also challenge anti-Blackness by using
bodily action to suspend perceptions and expectations of Black individuals. During the series kick-off, there will be a discussion
between the three artists touching upon their methodology and work.

Frictions is organized by Performance Curator Tara Aisha Willis and Curatorial Assistant in Performance Laura Paige Kyber.

This exhibition is organized by Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator Carla
Acevedo-Yates.

For more information about the MCA visit https://mcachicago.org

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