STAND-INS (rehearsing)
Rex Delafkaran
Friday, September 5, 2025 – Sunday, October 12, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, September 5, 2025 | 6-9pm | Free-To-Attend
Presented in Gallery One
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
The cast of objects in the play of STAND-INS are all known to us physically, we relate to them with varying forms of intimacy, and they propose to help us in some form of transformation. The materials used are a part of an everyday domestic life and, whether we intend to or not, we are bonded to them. It is kind of sad, the objects are aware of their existential futility. Playfully the sculptures are exercising pleasure and curiosity, and are driven by a critique of the structures that coerce us toward a wellness tied to capitalism and passivity.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Rex Delafkaran is an interdisciplinary artist from California, based in Chicago. Delafkaran makes her work through a combination of research and material study, producing sculpture, ceramics, performance, and writing. Through her queer, Iranian, American, and aesthetic lineages she plays with the failure and poetry among bodies, objects, and language.
Delafkaran has exhibited and performed at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum, DC; Panoply Performance Lab, NY; Platform Projects, Greece; Satellite Art Fair, FL; and EXPO Chicago, IL, among others. She is a recipient of a Warhol Foundation ‘Wherewithal Research Grant’ and recently awarded the Eldon Danhausen Sculpture Fellowship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Delafkaran holds a degree in Ceramics and Performance from the San Francisco Art Institute, and an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
