""Your Birth is My Birth presents the duo's synthetic hair sculptures, which suspend from the ceiling of Jane Lombard Gallery and splay across the wooden floor like organic growths.""
""Several works also reference genetics and what's passed down through generations, as mirrored forms emerge within the same vertical tendril.""
""Similar to an epiphyte and its host tree, these sculptural works have their own life cycles evoking systems of dependence and exchange, where one form sustains from another.""
Lincoln Park and the Garfield Park Conservatory serve as vital green spaces in Chicago, inspiring artists Merryn Omotayo Alaka and Sam Frésquez. Their exhibition, Your Birth is My Birth, features synthetic hair sculptures that mimic organic growth. The pieces, influenced by epiphytes, include five distinct 'species' and explore themes of symbiosis and genetic inheritance. The sculptures connect smaller forms to larger structures, emphasizing the relationships and dependencies found in nature, akin to the interactions between epiphytes and their host plants.
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