Terrain Biennial - Julietta Cheung: Consonance | October 2 - November 18, 2021

Consonance (in an alley behind the Riverside Art Center facing the Riverside Metra station platform), 2021–ongoing, Wheat paste poster, 53.5 x 35 in.

In conjunction with the 2021 Terrain Biennial and the Chicago Architecture Biennial

October 2 - November 18, 2021

Consonance is a series of photographic street posters that explores the nature of public speech. Using the graphic forms of the alphabet to inspire prototypes of objects for use in street demonstrations (such as bullhorns, flags, and barriers), the work depicts language as the tools for ongoing collective action.

Julietta Cheung's text-based and language-inspired practice is informed by her experience as a second language user and her background in graphic design. Through textual appropriations, typographic experimentations, reading performances, and sculptural works, Cheung unmakes and remakes familiar cultural forms and narratives to examine their collective fabulations. She is an assistant professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.