June 6 to June 29, 2025

Opening 6 to 9 PM

On view every Saturday from 2 PM to 6 PM

Pegah Bahador

Hyeseul Song

Yue Xu

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.