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4750 N Sheridan Road, Chicago IL
Moving image works by Elena Ailes, Mark Alcazar Diaz, Kayla Anderson, Kioto Aoki, Qais Assali and Jose Luis Benavides, Leslie Crum, Norman W. Long, John Marks and Crystal Myslajek, Regina Martinez, Meida McNeal, Kristin McWharter, Curtis Miller, Zachary Nicol, Josh Rios, Oona Taper, and others, with new works added periodically. Please set an appointment to visit our media room, or view the works online through the links above.
Kioto Aoki
Not quite the territory of light
Digitized b/w 16mm, video, sound
7 minutes
2025
A dance film made tangentially around the novel Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima. We follow the emotional spiral grounded in daily routine as the protagonist struggles to break from her past, ultimately resulting in a move towards regaining agency by moving down and away from the light.
Kioto Aoki (青木希音) is a Chicago-based artist, educator and musician whose studio practice navigates propositions of spatial and visual acuity through the explorations of the body in space. Vernaculars of conceptual photography and experimental cinema operate as tangential frameworks of analogue processes to negotiate visual and temporal propositions within the mundane. Her works balance the act of revealing and withholding along axes of sight and relativity, while body serves as an inflection point oscillating between assertions of personal, communal, cultural narratives. Her research-based methodology also integrates material, geographic and spatial histories into the conceptual and applied processes. Installations are arranged to emphasize and accentuate the relationship between the work, viewer and exhibition environment, often playing with the activation of two-dimensional images in a three-dimensional space. For more info, visit kiotoaoki.com.
Evergreen is partially supported by grants from the Illinois Arts Council Agency; CityArts grants from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events; Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; Reva and David Logan Foundation; and Teiger Foundation.