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DECAYGING: a Memento MoriExhibition :: OCT 11 - NOV 1, 2025
featuring these exhibiting artists:
Ange Altenhofen • Alonso Galue • Clem Hahn • Gretchen Hasse • Charlie Levin • Judi Strahota • Luna Rail • Ike Scott • David Sutton • Alex Wilson
OPENING Reception :: Saturday, Oct 11, 7–10 pm
SAVE THESE DATES:
DEATH ACTIVIST Symposium :: Wed, Oct 15, 7–9 pm
featuring presenters:
Cianna Stewart • Mark Miller
ARTIST EULOGIES / Critiques :: Wed, Oct 22, 7–9 pm
featuring artists talk about the work
SIREN SONGS to Lure You to Your Death :: Sat, Oct 25, 7–10 pm
featuring the bands:
The Broom People • Eve's Undoing
TODAY WE ALL DIE: Day of the Dead :: Sat, Nov 1, 6:30–9 pm
featuring performers:
Gary Glazner • Wendy Madrigal • cin salach • Luke Leisman • Grant Kuchan • Alonso Galue
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Looking at LIFE & DEATH and how these binaries are actually one and the same; integrated in the cycle of existence. The Memento Mori (Reminder of Death) emphasizes the sweetness/ripeness of being in the latter stages of life; concluding a timeline; nearing the end of usefulness; fulfilling life’s purpose.
Funerary and death-marking have been a part of human cultural, civic and religious traditions throughout time. The memento mori has been a recurring tradition in art making since before the Egyptian recordings in the Book of the Dead or the Flemish and Dutch painters codified memorial reminders of human mortality in vanitas still-life paintings; because death is ever-present.
Curated by Jason Greenberg, Agitator Member
We are born into death / living every day as an act of dying...beautifully, wholesomely, actively.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Agitator Gallery, 3859 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60647-2245, United States, Oak Park
