The door you open is determined by how you twist the knob. The room you enter is determined by how you open the door.
  • Yani aviles
  • Mira Dayal
  • Micah Schippa
November 13, 2022 –
January 15, 2023

1524 S Western Ave
Suite 406
Chicago, IL 60608

Exhibitions

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Apparatus Projects is an artist-directed off-space specializing in exhibition-making, publications, and free public programming in Chicago, IL.

Our exhibitions and texts look to build relationships between strangers and deepen already existing ones between familiars.

Apparatus Projects is a registered 501(c)3.

Learn more about Apparatus Projects →

Gallery Hours:
Saturdays and Sundays, 12–4pm

1524 S Western Ave
Suite 406
Chicago, IL 60608

Enter the building through the South entrance and take either the stairs near Good Weather or follow the hallway to the north door of the building, where we are accessible by elevator.

We can be reached at [email protected].

Installation view
Yani aviles
Sunrise, Sunset, Eclipse, 2022
Vinyl
Reference 1. Screenshot of news headline: “Iconic Manhattan church bell won’t ring for Biden’s inauguration, the first it’s missed in US history 2. Poem “For whom the bell tolls” by John Donne 3. Joy Harjo’s “Remember”
Installation view
Mira Dayal
1524 N Western Ave, Master Bedroom, West Wall, 2022
Colored pencil, paper, ayhoos wood
Installation view
Yani aviles
Time immemorial, 2022
Fallen leaves shipped west, gathered
Yani aviles
Time immemorial, 2022
Fallen leaves shipped west, gathered
Installation view
Micah Schippa
All the way to Latvia snow fell from his lips. (bell to mark the war), 2022
Hammered copper bell permanently installed inside the gallery wall with the stipulation that it not be removed unless or until the building is demolished
Micah Schippa
All the way to Latvia snow fell from his lips. (bell to mark the war), 2022
Hammered copper bell permanently installed inside the gallery wall with the stipulation that it not be removed unless or until the building is demolished
Installation view
Micah Schippa
Let the forgetting begin, 2020–2022
Clock mechanism previously dissolved in lacrimal solution (false tears formulated by the artist)
Installation view
Mira Dayal
1524 N Western Ave, Bedroom, West Wall, 2022
Colored pencil, graphite, paper, pine
Mira Dayal
1524 N Western Ave, Bedroom, South Wall, 2022
Colored pencil, paper, plastic
Installation view
Micah Schippa
Words are but honey used to embalm the dead
(for the 13 countries where being gay is legally punishable by death),
2022
Oxford shirts soaked in honey and ash
Micah Schippa
Words are but honey used to embalm the dead
(for the 13 countries where being gay is legally punishable by death),
2022
Oxford shirts soaked in honey and ash
Micah Schippa
Words are but honey used to embalm the dead
(for the 13 countries where being gay is legally punishable by death),
2022
Oxford shirts soaked in honey and ash
Installation view
Yani aviles
Shaping Time, 2022
Stone, hemp wick, activated charcoal, bentonite clay, dried rosemary, blue sage, ginseng leaves,dandelion root, daffodil petals, hair from a friend, milkweed seeds, key, layered wax with intentions setand poured by individuals in communion