Merging veil, 2025, curated by EXTRA-PROJECTS for Terrain Biennial
Merging Veil is a site-specific installation at the Hairpin Arts Center, where the gallery’s fifteen windows become display cases for suspended reflective veils. Located at the intersection of N. Milwaukee, W. Diversey, and N. Kimball, the gesture of covering highlights the triangular corner where three streets converge, tracing the contours of the historic Morris B. Sachs building itself.
The piece explores light reflection as a flexible material, able to highlight space by contouring it. This silver interruption addresses those who pass through the intersection—commuters, bus riders, and neighbors—intervening in the everyday landscape.It seeks to question how we experience and understand what we see, and the depth of feeling that emerges through shifts in perception.
The Hairpin Arts Center was established as a 501(C)(3) not-for-profit in 2009, as the Logan Square Chamber of Arts. LSCA’s mission is to empower, engage, and transform our communities through the arts. The Logan Square Chamber of Arts was organized to promote the greater Logan Square community of Chicago as a vibrant and attractive cultural destination by enhancing cultural opportunities in the Logan Square area, showcasing local cultural institutions and artists through community events, and participating in the larger Chicago cultural community.
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Merging Veil is a site-specific installation at the Hairpin Arts Center, where the gallery’s fifteen windows become display cases for suspended reflective veils. Located at the intersection of N. Milwaukee, W. Diversey, and N. Kimball, the gesture of covering highlights the triangular corner where three streets converge, tracing the contours of the historic Morris B. Sachs building itself.
The piece explores light reflection as a flexible material, able to highlight space by contouring it. This silver interruption addresses those who pass through the intersection—commuters, bus riders, and neighbors—intervening in the everyday landscape.It seeks to question how we experience and understand what we see, and the depth of feeling that emerges through shifts in perception.
The Hairpin Arts Center was established as a 501(C)(3) not-for-profit in 2009, as the Logan Square Chamber of Arts. LSCA’s mission is to empower, engage, and transform our communities through the arts. The Logan Square Chamber of Arts was organized to promote the greater Logan Square community of Chicago as a vibrant and attractive cultural destination by enhancing cultural opportunities in the Logan Square area, showcasing local cultural institutions and artists through community events, and participating in the larger Chicago cultural community.
Images: Mikey Mosher