Sullivan Galleries, Chicago (IL)
EXPO Chicago Art Fait, Chicago (IL)
Agape is divine love -the love God has for man, and man for God. A gap is also an opening, a fissure one can pry open, peer into or from which something leaks out.
Agape is a 30 minute performance in which the performer reads 100 sapphic love fragments, from the top of a ladder. She then guzzles down a bottle of wine, lettering the excess seep out of her mouth, like a fountain.
The installation includes a mounted canvas, mirroring the stain left by the performance. The canvas is an ephemera of a preliminary iteration of this work, which incorporated a pierced chair from which the text was read. This iteration was presented at the Hauser & Wirth Bookstore in New York City (NY) as part of Conversations in Contemporary Poetics, curated by Jeffrey Grunthaner in 2018.
Agape was presented as part of the School of The Art Institute of Chicago MFA Thesis Show at the Sullivan Galleries in Chicago, in Spring 2019.
The ephemera was selected to be shown in the SAIC booth curated by Sarah Skaggs for the Chicago international Contemporary Art Fair: EXPO, in the fall of the same year.
