Marla chinbat

5.04.2025

Self-startling room (something inside is smiling at me), 2025

Replica of a fitting room from young popular clothing store, sound, latex, performance

Photo of me mid-dance by Jacob Romero

iPhone vid of me courtesy Kyley Sneed

3.29.2025

Spring/thing breaking 3.17 - 3.29.2025

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cur. Marla Chinbat

Fiona Lyons-Carlson, Josephina Opsenica, Lu Polkinghorne, Maia Seatter, Kyley Sneed, Lily Sperry, Jacob Romero,

Geoffrey Yu

3.17 - 3.29.2025

5th Floor Gallery, Art & Exhibition Hall, University of Illinois Chicago, 400 S. Peoria St.

When a break is a residue or stretches itself to euclidian scale, a flat plane that divides itself, proliferating, seducing, fucking your head, marking a calendar, marking an image, an imagining, a whiff. This thing that can percolate in the air, be sticky on my neurons, leaving a film as electricity activates this thing which is barely a thing and it can only be pulled like a hair from an experience or question which comes from a singular individual or drawn from a singularity. An experience which may d/evolve into a feeling, a trip, 30 seconds of office hours, the driving of a boat, one afternoon in Decatur, an uttering, isolate revelation or isolate tension with someone. This thing is breaking over and over again.

did-you-know , maia-works-at-the-conservatory , turtle-pool , her-name-is-ella , roof-breaking ,

photo-realistic-aroma , illinois , off-season , i-used-to-stare-at-this-thing-a-lot , she-has-this-blog ,

kyley-told-me-a-long-time-ago-about-her-teenage-coworker , trends-consignment , pinkie-born-in-spring ,

she-tried-to-be-sneaky , earthquake , her-name-is-ixmati , those-are-actually-nipples , we-share-a-studio ,

she-asked-her-if-she-could-buy-her-some-alcohol-for-a-concert , lu-is-from-the-city , vacation-thing ,

her-bedroom-is-perfect , body-pooling , plaster-deity , you-and-your-mother , proxy-country-life ,

geoffrey-went-to-beijing-last-summer , fiona-could-imagine-the-smell , the-password-is-ella , dont-open-it ,

pinkie-breaking-away-from-lilys-head , pinkie-wicked-from-woman , boyfriend-drowning , he-noticed-the-plaster ,

circumstance-thing , kyley-said-she-was-busy-that-day

Stills from a reading of Lily Sperry's Pinkie in four scenes at closing reception on 3.27.2025

From left to right:

Fiona-Lyons Carlson

Public_Memory, 2024

Brand identity system

Ink, paper, aluminum, stainless steel, pearl bead

Photo by Kyley Sneed

Geoffrey Yu

siheyuan, 2024

Watercolor and acrylic on drywall

Lu Polkinghorne

No Rain, 2024

Acrylic on canvas

Lily Sperry

Pinkie, 2023

Text, inkjet print

Photos courtesy of the artist

Jacob Romero

charm, 2025

Graphite on paper, glow in the dark PLA, chrome balls, cotton, vellum

Princess of Ocean City, 2023-2025

Inkjet print, poem

Special thanks to Gibson Chidel and Will Doud

Josephina Opsenica

Hiding, 2024

Acrylic and found fabric

Maia Seatter

Untitled, 2024

White Phalaenopsis blooms, float glass, wood, nails

Kyley Sneed

no fishing, 2024

Inkjet print

11.04.2024

What. (is happening absolutely nothing)

What. (is happening absolutely nothing), 2024

Resin, essie enamel in marshmallow, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear® in Black Out, L'Oréal Paris True Match Super-Blendable® Powder in Neutral, L.A. Colors Color Craze Nail Polish CNP187, nail polish ball bearing pearls, hair, saliva, latex

6" x 6"