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Closing: Instructions on how to spread dandelions: new work by Pegah Bahador, Hyeseul Song & Yue Xue

  • Compound Yellow 244 Lake Street Oak Park, IL, 60302 United States (map)

Join us for the closing reception of Petal Fold, Rabbit Ear, Inside Reverse: new works by Hai-Wen Lin and Instructions on how to spread dandelions: Pegah Bahador, Hyeseul Song and Yue Xu

Sunday 6/29
2pm to 6pm

We will have snacks and cold drinks,
maybe some folding and artist talks!

Don't miss this last chance to see this beautiful, inspiring and poignant work!

Pegah Bahador (b. 1998, Tehran) practices doori o doosti, a Farsi term that translates to ‘distance and friendship,’ and emphasizes how the two coexist and (even sonically) intertwine. This epistolary practice resembles letters- and is itself a type of correspondence between them and their subjects. They work between language, drawing, and video making as traces of perception to focus on place and language dislocation, and the gradual deterioration and loss of opacity and information that follows it. They earned their BFA at Tehran University of Art and are currently pursuing their MFA in Art, Theory, Practice at Northwestern University.

Hyeseul Song (b.1995, Seoul) lives and works in Chicago. She earned a Bachelor of Architecture from Sungkyunkwan University in 2021 and a BFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023. She is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Chicago. Her works explore the areas where the built environment and nature overlap, where the inherent qualities of form and material intertwine, invoking an emotional resonance with the surroundings.

Yue Xu is an artist based in Chicago. She earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021 and her BFA from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in China. Her work has been exhibited at the National Museum of Mexican Art (2024), Chinese American Museum of Chicago (2024), 6018|North (2023), The Plan (2023), Chicago Art Department (2021), Terrain Biennial (2021), Mana Contemporary (2021), 062 (2020), and Comfort Station (2020) in Chicago, IL, USA; as well as the Guangdong Museum of Art (2017) and Xinzao Contemporary Art Center (2016) in Guangdong, China.