Join us for a special walk-through of Seeing through Stone with artists with the Tea Project (Amber Ginsburg & Aaron Hughes). In addition to speaking about their own work in the exhibition, Remaking the Exceptional (2022), they will reflect on a selection of other works. This event is free and open to the public.

The Tea Project traces the ongoing relationships between the military and global policing. Drawing on the image of the “torture tree” (Laurence Ralph, The Torture Letters, 2020) as a metaphor for torture reaching across borders, the Tea Project focuses on uncovering moments of beauty and shared humanity when technologies of violence are co-opted or converted into systems of community-building.

Reflecting on over a decade of the project’s researching and compiling stories, Remaking the Exceptional is a series of nine screenprints that highlight the interwoven relations between state violence and creative resistance. The works track the often latent connections between tea, torture, and survival, and how they coexist in a complex global network.

Amber Ginsburg is an artist and teacher living and working in Chicago, Illinois.

Aaron Hughes is an artist, curator, organizer, teacher, anti-war activist and Iraq War veteran living in Chicago, Illinois. 

Image: Tea Project (Amber Ginsburg & Aaron Hughes), Remaking the Exceptional, 2022. Courtesy of the artists. Photo by Glen Cheriton.