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Indexes of endurance, absent spankers, mechanized logics and confused circuits, we know what is going on but we do not know for what this is going. In my video, installation, drawing, and performance work, there is transparency in both materials used and in what is occurring; my art is not magic. Not magical in the sense that most elements are recognizable in these pieces. However, their immediate purpose is not evident. Rather, I am opening up ways of looking, of expectation, and of hiding. I create my work as a way to reveal the option for not knowing. Desire can never be fully achieved without no longer being desire, just as looking is not the same as knowing; we do not look down at the doorknob we are using until it does not work, or until something out of the ordinary occurs. As a reminder that expectations do not have to be fulfilled, I am looking to confront our desire for meaning in the world today.
Selected Press:
Thea Liberty Nichols, “Stay In your Lane!” Artslant, August 2, 2010
Lauren Weinberg, “Stay In Your Lane!” Time Out Chicago / Issue 284 : Aug 5–11, 2010
Jeriah Hildewine, “Madeleine Bailey at Artists and Residents,” Chicago Art Magazine, March 25, 2010
Lauren Weinberg, “The Top Art and Design Shows of 2009,” Time Out Chicago, January 6, 2010
Candice Weber, “No More Worlds," Time Out Chicago / Issue 240 : Oct 1–7, 2009
Pepper Coate, “Artists To Watch: Madeleine Bailey,” Chicago Artists’ News, August 2009
