Liberation Among the Stars: A Past and Future Dream by Tesh Silver
May 29 at 7 PM to June 26 at 8pm
In the windows of Co-Prosperity - 3219 S Morgan, Chicago
Stars. Ancestors no longer earthbound, suspended in infinite space. We long to be among them, finding a home that’s truly ours, where freedom is not a foreign word or long-sought goal, but finally made real. For as many times this world has turned against us, a new world awaits to embrace us in its abundance and let us call her home. Here we build anew. Here we heal. Here we will find joy!
With illustrations that look both forward and to the past, Tesh Silver envisions a new world that is not only fun, colorful and exciting, but makes space to explore what Black liberation could look like in a hopefully not-so-distant future. Hop on the Mothership and see what’s possible!
Liberation Among the Stars: A Past and Future Dream opens on Saturday, May 29, 7 PM at the Co-Prosperity windows and will close on Saturday, June 26 at 2 PM with a print sale near the installation (More details TBD).
Additionally, Tesh will be joined by Coriama Davis for an artist talk on June 21st live on Lumpen TV.
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About Tesh Silver
Teshika Silver is a teacher, facilitator and a cultural worker with lifelong love and practice of both art and design. Illustration is her passion, using both traditional media as well as digital programs to create pieces that are both captivating and magical. Originally from Detroit, Chicago has been her chosen home for fifteen years. She currently lives on the Southside in Woodlawn with her dog Penny.
For Tesh, it has always been essential that her work involves joy: joy when she creates the work, as well as for the person viewing it. Tesh Silver’s practice consists of both traditional but mainly digital work, though she is not bound by medium. As she developed her style, it became clear that she needed to represent the communities she belongs to, and that joy is not only reserved for those of privilege. Black, queer, femme, and other marginalized people should also experience joy, as well as the spectrum of emotions any human being does, and life is not always about struggle and lack. “I mean to represent these folks in their authentic nature of empowerment: Having seen struggle but strong in their conviction that they will win. If through the work, they are seen as valuable and divinely made, and their wholeness and wellness matters, my goals have been attained. We need to be able to envision the world that we want to see—the world that’s only in our wildest dreams—full of love, understanding, abundance, magic, and possibilities.” - Tesh Silver