agustine zegers: A toxin threatens, but it also beckons
Sept.–Dec. 2025UIC Gallery 400
While the correlation between plastics and harm to human organs continues to be studied, our bodies and environment absorb and accumulate plastics in catastrophic ways. Chicago-based artist agustine zegers questions the aliveness of everyday toxins and our bodily porosity to them through the lens of single-use plastics. New, small-scale works expand upon the desire and abjection of the polymers that surround and compose us. Polymer puddles with microplastics adhere to windowpanes. Found plastic bottle caps are filled with fragrance meant to resemble the intense scent of petroleum extraction in a landscape.
Press: Sixty Inches From Center
Photos by Jonas Mikowsch Müller-Ahlheim.