RTS would like to welcome Chicago based artist Alex Chitty as our February resident. Here’s what Alex has to say about her work and how she plans to spend her time at the studio:
“Sometimes when you’re watching a movie on your laptop and there’s a part that’s darkly lit, the screen reflects your face like a mirror and you end up watching a reflection of your face super-imposed over the movie. It’s not that you forgot you were watching a movie; it’s just that up until that moment, you forgot you physically existed. And because the story swallowed you up, you forgot the screen existed too. It’s easy to forget about the surface of the screen and all the lit up pixels that work to get the story across. I’ve been trying to notice those systems that you become so accustomed to using or being a part of that you no longer see them anymore.
At RTS I’ve begun working on a series of pieces I’ve been referring to as Structure Ptgs. I’ve been thinking about them for over a year and am excited to have the chance to expand on the idea. Loosely, I am thinking of them as a type of compressed shelf or wall tray that holds a composition via a sequence of photographs, gestures, and objects both made and found.”