Chiara No

Party Shag

Paper and Brass Fasteners

2012

what’s going on in my studio today. more party chain paper mail.

PARTY CHAIN PAPER MAIL!!! a new endeavor

Panoramic view of my piece at Towson University in Towson, MD. Mine is the big blue thing!

WILD THINGS, I THINK I LOVE YOU
 

new works by CHIARA NO  

JANUARY 7-13th 2012

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 7, 7-10pm

Open Hours: By Appointment Only

Johalla Projects

1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 110, Chicago 60622

ACRE and JOHALLA PROJECTS present an opening reception on SATURDAY, JAN 7, 2012 from 7-10pm at 1821 W Hubbard St, Suite 110 Chicago 60622. ACRE has partnered with JOHALLA PROJECTS to host CHIARA NO: WILD THINGS, I THINK I LOVE YOU, the next installment in ACRE’s year-long series of solo exhibitions by 2011 ACRE summer residents.

WILD THINGS, I THINK I LOVE YOU

Chiara No’s practice is to redefine and re-construct materials by stripping them of their original purpose and cultural significance, therefor reducing them to objects qua objects. Through the recalibration of these objects, she intends to illicit pure aesthetic seduction. The objects avoid didacticism and social critique; not out of anti-intellectualism, but rather out of an indifference towards intellect. By presenting streamers and embroideries without origin, context, or function, the work’s intent is to highlight their inherent beauty. They are feral forms, practical items which have escaped their domestic sphere. Wholly superficial and unconcerned with wit or place, they lean toward an existential happiness, an emotional zone where the pieces’ essential nothingness is in fact its content. And, grouped together, the pieces play against each other, exhibiting an even stronger, more congenial emptiness that defies both original and new milieu; they emphasize that an accumulation of everything is still nothing.

embroidering on paper - page one of my newest book

“a rainbow of fucking color.”