SPACORE, co-curated with Serena JV Elston
MDW Art Fair, Chicago, IL, 2022
www.spacore.skin
Project Statement
SPACORE is the lifestyle aesthetic of the moment. Borne of the intersection of work-from-home and pandemic horror, SPACORE is the blurring lines of relaxation and employment. It is the labor of repose. SPACORE is a critique of wellness capitalism. It explores the attempt to pacify the working class with the promotion of superficial “wellness.” This version of wellness co-opts the language of radical self-care and redefines it as access to upper-class amenities. Wellness culture derives its “authenticity” from appropriative aesthetics that steal from Eastern and Indigenous cultures. Wellness is a neoliberal project designed to locate suffering within the individual in order to repress political revolt. SPACORE situates wellness in the horror genre, where it belongs.
Featured Artists
Mack Baker, Dani Che, Sage Dye, Serena JV Elston, Becs Epstein, Sky Goodman, King Green, Philipp Groth, Dylan Languell, Rudolf Lingens, Mac Pierce, Ruby Que, Isabela Reyes-Klein, Aman Preet Singh, Claire Staples, Sabato Visconti, Tilcara Webb, Kelly Xi
Press
“Gallery Bop Around No. 2: MDW Fair,” Due to the Current Situation podcast
”Review: MDW Art Fair at Mana Contemporary,” by Joan Roach, Sixty Inches from Center
