"Wind Reenactmentr" By Mauricio Lopez F. At Comfort Station

Sundays through June 29th 11:00 am.-2:00 pm

Comfort Station

2579 N. Milwaukee Av.

Possession is an impulse that quickly settles into control. Inevitably, what is not understood is captured, examined, and when it presents some exploitable quality, it becomes a tool, a possibility. Wind is a strongly romanticized element, allowing heroism to be injected into moments that might otherwise seem tasteless. At the same time, its manifestation has a revealing quality. It dusts off what is latent and shows us that our environment is not pristine—that there is the precarious, the hidden, the forgettable, the unfixed. This duality forces its will upon us; we cannot stop it—it is there whether for our convenience or not. We can try to simulate it in forced controlled conditions, but it is well known that that’s not wind. The exhibition consists of three exemplary objects—Fig. 1, Fig. 2, and Fig 3. Each one aims to recreate, with different processes and materiality, the tensions between misinformation and the drive to capture.