Art & Art History
A Collaborative Reading & Unreading
Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St.
A reading of the Song Sing Sang by Catherine Lyu in collaboration with a reading of the White Books by Naeemeh Naeemaei. Through a series of quiet, deliberate actions, Naeemeh engages with approximately ten books selected solely for their white covers, regardless of their content. She will be using them to respond to Catherine’s reading of her translations of one of her grandpa’s poems. The echoing of sounds together with the materiality of the objects forms a language of communication between the artists and their memory objects.
ABOUT
Catherine Lyu is a Chinese artist currently based in Chicago. She is a multidisciplinary artist, and her practice explores languages as words, images, and objects. She uses bodily knowledge like memory, sensory, emotion, and thought process to guide her decisions in art making. Her works are attempts to treat language spatially, physically, and bodily.
Naeemeh Naeemaei (b. 1984, Tehran) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores ecological grief, folklore, and reconstructed memory. She has exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, and her work has featured in essays and on the covers of Leonardo, Sonic Acts, Dark Matter, Animal Studies Journal, Banyan Review, Walker Reader, and Orion.