A BATHING APE has teamed up with artwork publication The On-line Gallery to current HYPERREAL: IDENTITY, MYTH, AND MEMORY, a brand new group exhibition in Chicago curated by The OG artistic director Ché Morales.
Coinciding with EXPO ART WEEK, HYPERREAL spotlights six famend Chicago-based artists—Brandon Breaux, Brendan Fernandes, Esperanza Rosas, Julian Gaines, Sydnie Jimenez, and Yvette Mayorga—every chosen for his or her means to mirror and reshape the visible DNA of the town, whereas pushing conversations round authenticity, visibility, and transformation.
Grounded in BAPE’s ethos of FEARLESS EXPRESSION, the present channels the uncooked, imaginative vitality of Chicago’s artistic scene to supply an immersive take a look at how artists reimagine selfhood and place. The works featured assemble new narratives rooted in lived expertise, ancestral reminiscence, and the ever-shifting identification of the town itself.
“In a metropolis the place public artwork speaks louder than coverage and fable bleeds into each day life, these artists are creating work that exists within the area between reality and fiction,” says Morales. “HYPERREAL is a remix of identification—rooted in neighborhood, however projected into the longer term.”
Every of the six HYPERREAL artists can even be featured in THE OG EDITION 14, introduced in partnership with BAPE. Every version of THE OG journal showcases various artists, curators, and cultural innovators, amplifying their voices whereas difficult conventional boundaries of accessibility and exclusivity.
HYPERREAL: IDENTITY, MYTH, AND MEMORY runs from April twenty sixth to Could twenty second, on show at BAPE STORE CHICAGO, positioned at 113 E. Oak Road. Try the artist lineup under.
Brandon Breaux
Brendan Fernandes
Esperanza “Runsy” Rosas
Julian Gaines
Sydnie Jimenez
Yvette Mayorga
