🎨'Can you see me?' a new group exhibition at weinberg_newton puts a spotlight on how incarceration and the prison industrial complex, negatively impact youth. | ✍️cgnafziger 👇
. A unique aspect of the show is the presence of artwork created by youth involved with these organizations, as well as well-known artists such as Ebony G. Patterson and Cheryl Pope, whose piecegreets you with haunting words as you enter the space, leaving you to wonder if this use of the double negative is a precursor to the fact that perhaps “I” may be “coming back” after all.
This raw and intimate first-person voice is present throughout in letters that line the wall from currently incarcerated folks writing what freedom means to them and again in text written in public spaces throughout Chicago in the video,“Can you see me?” is rich with content and, like most exhibitions tackling large, looming issues, it is marked by the amount of necessary reading involved—but it is worth it.
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