With Slow Stretch, the new gallery installation from curatorial collective Third Object, interdisciplinary artists Sarah Belknap, Joseph Belknap, and Eileen Rae Walsh dissolve the boundaries that typically circumscribe artists in collaboration. The show, open through April 3 at Mana Contemporary Chicago, is a mess of visual conversation, and although there’s never any question as to which artist produced each work, the idea of “work” as a discrete visual unit is called into question by the three artists and Third Object’s curators.
Visitors who didn’t sign up for Third Object’s mailing series may find the same materials—including their own take-home art pieces—at the gallery itself. Few exhibitions send works home with attendees, but the show’s final mailing reinforces its fluidity, its commitment to dialogue over authority, like a concert in which audience members are invited up onstage. v
Through 4/3 Mana Contemporary Chicago 2233 S. Throop 312-850-0555manacontemporarychicago.com Free
