Hannah Altman @ Filter Space

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Hannah Altman @ Filter Space

June 2nd, 2021 by fstop

Hannah Altman: A Permanent Home in the Mouth of the Sun
June 25th – July 31st

Opening Reception: June 25th | 6 – 9 PM CT

“A Permanent Home in the Mouth of the Sun explores Jewish diaspora, world building, and sacred time through photographic narratives that build from interpreted ritual and motifs in Yiddish folklore. Judaic stories often consider the polarity of exile; with one hand we tend to ancestral wounds that compel the notion to shield and assimilate, with the other we knead an ancestral resilience that allows us to continually revisit actions, places, and objects as they fit into new spaces of care and translation. The Jewish ritualization of time is similarly elastic. Through repeated cycles of practice sanctified by the setting sun, the past weaves through the arteries of the present, encouraging photographs born from Jewish memories to perform time in open-ended worlds. To approach an image in this way is not only to ask what it looks like but asks: what does it remember like?”

Filter Space
1821 W Hubbard St
Suite 207
Chicago, IL

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States Type: Exhibition

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