If you are attending @EXPOChicago Contemporary Art Fair this week, DO NOT MISS @helina.metaferia 's exhibition at @superpositiongallery, FOCUS Section, Booth 121.
📍EXPO CHICAGO, Navy Pier, 600 E. Grand Ave, Chicago IL 60611
I had the pleasure of meeting Helina, marveling at some of her works up close, and learning about her process during a recent gathering of artists, arts advocates, culture workers and collectors in NYC. Curated and presented by Superposition Gallery Owner & Founder @stormascher, the intimate salon was graciously hosted by The Wells Group @gboydwells.
🖼 images 1-5 & ✍️🏾caption reposted from @superpositiongallery "Superposition Gallery is honored to exhibit a solo presentation by Helina Metaferia @helinametaferia for the FOCUS section at @EXPOChicago
Metaferia’s By Way of Revolution series transforms the labor of activism into an iconography of power. In these 30” x 40” hand-assembled collages, Headdress 77 and Headdress 78 (2025), workshop participants are crowned with layered histories of resistance.
The subjects featured in these works [images 1-3] are director Alex Bledsoe @alexjbledsoe and producer Jalena Keane-Lee @jalena.kl. Beyond their roles as the living archives within these frames, they are also the visionaries behind Our Songs: By Way of Revolution, a new short-doc film exploring Metaferia’s practice, which we are debuting during the fair at Soho House Chicago.
The perceived physical weight of these headdresses reflects the emotional and political weight of the archives Metaferia meticulously mines to honor the lineage of her subjects. By merging public records of Civil Rights movements with the models’ private ancestral snapshots, Metaferia collapses the distance between the heroic past and the individual’s present reality.
...We are thrilled to bring these intricate, living archives to Navy Pier to explore the enduring, lived experience of social change."
#SuperpositionGallery #HelinaMetaferia #EXPOChicago
