Reflections on Practice
21c Museum Hotel Chicago

October 1 - March 14, 2025

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Reflections on Practice is an exhibition featuring films and video work from Kioto Aoki, Lois Bielefeld, and Yuge Zhou for Elevate: Rm 921. Projected onto a 48-foot wall, the exhibition is only viewable after dusk and from the windows of 21c Chicago guest rooms with interior-facing windows. Reflections on Practice is about ritual, performance, and finding meaning in the everyday. Kioto Aoki, Lois Bielefeld, and Yuge Zhou use their bodies in space to engage in acts of labor, observation, and ritual. Through their films and videos, each artist takes the viewer to a different location in a series of meditative practices.

 

Designed to showcase immersive and experiential moving-image work in response to the unique space, Elevate: Rm 921 addresses complex issues that shape our diverse and rapidly changing world. Curated by Jennifer Murray.

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Mornings in Orange (2017)

16mm, b/w, silent, 3 minutes

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Exploratory Conservations (2018)

16mm, b/w, silent, 3 minutes

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