Location: Chicago Art Dept

Proxy Bodies is an ongoing collaborative exhibition initiated by UK-based artist Elly Clarke at Hamilton MAS in Felixstowe in 2021. Through photography, performance, embroidery, drawing, painting and video, Proxy Bodies explores ideas and lived realities of having and keeping a body going in an uber-connected, politically & ecologically unstable world. Since the first iteration of this exhibition in September last year, the notion - and reality - of proxy bodies has shifted yet again, due to the Ukraine war and ongoing ecological & humanitarian crises in Europe and beyond.

Featuring work by artists from the first iteration:

Elly Clarke
Bryony Graham
Clareese Hill
Dominique Savitri Bonarjee
Galina Shevchenko

and two new Chicago-based artists invited by Galina Shevchenko:

Elena Pach
Maria Dimanshtein

Episode 2 of Proxy Bodies is curated by Galina Shevchenko, with hands on installation help from Clareese Hill. We are grateful to all who have helped Proxy Bodies (2) arrive at this place - including Elly Clarke’s PhD funders CHASE Doctoral Training Programme, for supporting the origins of this show.

The exhibition runs 8-30th April with an opening event 6-10pm on 8th April and an artist talk (online & offline) at the end of the run.