Ordinary Horrors

Gallery 400, Chicago

2021

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.

Text and curation: Astria Suparak

Special thanks to April and Tyler Noga

Photos: Oleksandra Chuprina

Video: Julian Van Der Moere

Ordinary Horrors Gallery 400