Voices: Dawit L. Petros

Gallery 400, a not-for-profit arts space at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), supports contemporary art, architecture, and design through exhibitions, lectures, publications, and programs that prioritize interpretative reflection and critical inquiry. Gallery 400’s mission is to be a contemporary art hub for social interaction, transformative experience, and multi-dimensional learning. Creating a place to connect, Gallery 400 actively positions its exhibitions and public programs as opportunities with which to build community and as avenues for learning in informal social settings. Operating within an urban public university, Gallery 400 offers innovative programming that serves a range of audiences across the fabric of Chicago and UIC’s diverse communities.

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Join Dawit Petros for a lecture examining Chicago’s connection to Italian Fascist histories, histories of migration, and colonial empires.

Join Eritrean-born visual artist Dawit Petros for a lecture anchored on his recent research and projects examining Chicago’s connection to Italian Fascist histories, histories of migration, and colonial empires in the Horn of Africa.Centering on diasporic theory, Petros’s photographic work explores the toils of modernity and colonialism. His critique of nationalism and colonialism was borne out of his formative experience living in Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Kenya before eventually fleeing to central Canada. ABOUT:<a href="http://www.dawitlpetros.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dawit L. Petros</a> is a visual artist, researcher and educator. He completed an MFA in Visual Art at Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; a BFA in Photography at Concordia University, Montreal; a BA in History at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon and the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum in New York City. His work is informed by research in global modernisms, theories of diaspora, post-colonial studies and re-reads the entanglements between colonialism and modernity. Dawit L. Petros is an Associate Professor in the Department of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is represented by Tiwani Contemporary in London, UK and Bradley Ertaskiran in Montreal, Canada.ACCESS INFORMATION: This program is free. CART captioning and ASL interpretation will be available. For questions and access accommodations, email gallery400engagement@gmail.com.

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