IN/SITU

Installed within the expansive, vaulted architecture of Navy Pier’s Festival Hall, IN/SITU features large-scale sculpture, video, film and site-specific works. For the 2024 program, Amara Antilla, Independent Curator and Guest Curator at Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in Cincinnati, will curate a selection of new and existing works featuring artists from leading international exhibitors participating in the exposition.  

2024 IN/SITU Curator

Amara Antilla is a curator based in Washington DC with over fifteen years of experience conceiving of and developing exhibitions with a focus on international contemporary art. She is currently an independent curator and guest curator for Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in Cincinnati. From 2019 to 2023 she served as Senior Curator at the CAC where she organized solo exhibitions and new commissions by artists including Tania Candiani (2020), Kahlil Robert Irving (2020), Steffani Jemison (2021), Marwa Arsanios (2021), Hellen Ascoli (2021), Rit Premnath (2021), Nora Turato (2021), Paul Maheke (2022), Carmen Winant (2022) and Tai Shani (2023). Among the group exhibitions that she has recently curated and co-curated are Wild Frictions: The Politics and Poetics of Interruption (2021); The Regional (2022), Artist-Run Spaces (2022), and Breaking Water (2022). Antilla’s projects have traveled to or been featured at venues such as the Dhaka Art Summit; ICA San Diego; JOAN, Los Angeles; Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, and Northern Spark, Minneapolis, among others. Previously, Antilla served as a curator at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, where she worked on numerous exhibitions and expanded the permanent collection through acquisitions. She also supported the research and exhibition program of the MAP Global Art Initiative and contributed to organizing various contemporary exhibitions and performances with artists including Simone Leigh, Alfredo Jaar, and Amalia Pica. She is the recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Fellowship and the Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Research Award (both 2022). She studied art history at Tufts University, Medford, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY).

CURATORIAL STATEMENT: In the Country of Last Things, IN/SITU 2024

Titled after Paul Auster’s 1987 dystopian novel, the 2024 IN/SITU section presents site-responsive and large-scale work in installation, painting, photography, sculpture, sound, and video by fifteen artists examining the precarious nature of contemporary life. Anchored by Lucia Koch’s monumental installation of photographs depicting the void-like interiors of discarded cardboard containers, the exhibition explores themes of systemic economic failure, ecological instability, and political dissolution. Produced by an international cohort of artists, many of whom have ties the Midwest, the featured projects investigate collective unease during a fractured time, evoking revisionist histories, and moving beyond critique to imagine more just and sustainable futures.

2024 Participating Artists

American Artist | Labor, Mexico City
Iván Argote | Perrotin, Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Dubai, Los Angeles
Paul Stephen Benjamin | Efraín López, New York
Kiah Celeste | DOCUMENT, Chicago, Lisbon & Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn
Elena Damiani | Revolver Galería, Lima, Buenos Aires, New York
Anne-Karin Furunes | RYAN LEE Gallery, New York
Rico Gatson | Miles McEnery, New York
Maria Hupfield | Patel Brown, Toronto, Montreal
Voluspa Jarpa | NOME, Berlin
Lucia Koch | Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, New York
Josèfa Ntjam | Galerie Poggi, Paris
Michael Rakowitz | Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago & Jane Lombard Gallery, New York
Claudia Peña Salinas | CURRO, Guadalajara
Tori Wrånes | Nazarian / Curcio, Los Angeles
Lauren Yeager | Abattoir, Cleveland

2024 ON-SITE WORKS

American Artist
Labor, Mexico City
Christopher Donner 2024, 2023

Color video, with sound 

2 min., 22 sec. 

Courtesy of the artist and Labor, Mexico City

Iván Argote
Perrotin, Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Dubai, Los Angeles
Etcétera: Bust, 2021

Mirror polished stainless corten steel

81 1/2 x 42 15/16 x 31 1/8 inches (207 x 109 x 79 cm) 

Unique 

Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin, Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Dubai, Los Angeles

Iván Argote
Perrotin, Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Dubai, Los Angeles 

Etcétera: Column, 2021

Mirror polished stainless corten steel106 11/16 x 23 5/8 x 27 15/16 inches (271 x 60 x 71 cm) 

Unique 

Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin, Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Dubai, Los Angeles

Paul Stephen Benjamin
Efraín López, New York
Black Flag, 2022

Black cotton, custom flagpole 

120 x 50 x 80 in (304.8 x 127 x 203.2 cm) 

Courtesy the artist and Efraín López, New York

Kiah Celeste
DOCUMENT, Chicago, Lisbon & Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn

Aloof it all, 2024

Carpet padding, fabric, Corian, wood

66 x 24 x 98 in. (167.6 x 61 x 248.9 cm.)

Courtesy of the artist, DOCUMENT Chicago | Lisbon, and Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Photo credit: Chad Crews

Elena Damiani
Revolver Galería, Lima, Buenos Aires, New York
Suns in the shadow, 2022

Hand-carved and polished Santa Ana marble, bronze casting, steel, polyurethane paint and lacquer 

83 x 177 x 17 inches (210.82 x 449.58 x 43.18 cm) 

Courtesy of the artist and Revolver Galería, Lima Buenos Aires, New York

Anne-Karin Furunes
RYAN LEE Gallery, New York
Calving Glacier XI, Kronebreen, Svalbard, 2023

Acrylic on canvas, perforated 

78 3/4 x 142 inches (200 x 360.7 cm) 

Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE, New York

Rico Gatson
Miles McEnery, New York
An installation of recent framed works on paper from the ongoing "Icon" series, 2024

Ink on paper 

Dimensions variable 

Courtesy the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York

Maria Hupfield
Patel Brown, Toronto, Montreal
ABI AKI, 2022

Industrial felt, and nylon

48 x 72 x 84 inches (121.92 x 182.88 x 213.36 cm) 

Couresy of the artist and Patel Brown, Toronto, Montreal

Voluspa Jarpa
NOME, Berlin
Desclasificados (Declassified), 2019

Ink on paper 

Dimension variable 

Courtesy of the artist and NOME, Berlin

Lucia Koch
Nara Roseler, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, New York
3X3 Pots, 2024

Photograph on vinyl with wood 

Dimensions variable 

Courtesy of the artist and Nara Roseler, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, New York

Josèfa Ntjam
Galerie Poggi, Paris
Incubateur de révolte, 2023

Steel, PVC, and LED, with monitor featuring color video, with sound, 5 min., 43 sec. 

70 7/8 x 89 3/4 inches (180 x 230 cm) 

Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Poggi, Paris

Michael Rakowitz
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago & Jane Lombard Gallery, New York
The Breakup, 2022

Courtesy of the artist and Rhona Hoffman Gallery and Jane Lombard Gallery, New York

Michael Rakowitz
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago & Jane Lombard Gallery, New York
A house with a date palm will never starve, 2019/2024
Culinary intervention 

Courtesy of the artist and Rhona Hoffman Gallery and Jane Lombard Gallery, New York

Claudia Peña Salinas
CURRO, Guadalajara
Atli Temoayan series, 2024

Brass, plexiglass and dyed cotton thread 

100 x 190 inches (240 x 420 x 1 cm) 

Unique piece 

Courtesy of the artist and CURRO, Guadalajara

Tori Wrånes
Nazarian / Curcio, Los Angeles
Mussel Tears, 2021

Steel, concrete, mussels 

31 x 4.5 x 15 inches (78.74 x 11.43 x 38.1 cm) each 

Courtesy of the artist and Nazarian / Curcio, Los Angeles

Lauren Yeager
Abattoir, Cleveland
Infinite Column, 2022

Found objects 

19 x 12x 95 inches ( 48.26 x 30.48 x 241.3 cm) 

Courtesy of the artist and Abattoir, Cleveland