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Christopher Meerdo and Cecilia Salama Displaced Desire (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artists + LVL3, Chicago.
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Cecilia Salama, 'You look quite ravishing in your Prada apparel (1)' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + LVL3, Chicago.
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Christopher Meerdo, 'Blaze (IMG00, Millbrook, Canada)' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + LVL3, Chicago.
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Christopher Meerdo and Cecilia Salama Displaced Desire (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artists + LVL3, Chicago.
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Cecilia Salama, 'Tried to hit you on your two-way (Ceratotherium simum)' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + LVL3, Chicago.
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Cecilia Salama, 'For Teagan: Surfing for Love' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + LVL3, Chicago.
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Christopher Meerdo, 'White Hot (LCV)' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + LVL3, Chicago.
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Christopher Meerdo, 'Untitled (Composition for Hydroprint)' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + LVL3, Chicago.
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Christopher Meerdo, 'White Hot (Medical Center)' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + LVL3, Chicago.
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Christopher Meerdo and Cecilia Salama Displaced Desire (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artists + LVL3, Chicago.

Christopher Meerdo + Cecilia Salama move through intimacy and isolation in Displaced Desire at LVL3

, 13 October 2017

Christopher Meerdo and Cecilia Salama presented joint exhibition Displaced Desire at Chicago’s LVL3, which opened September 9 and is running to October 22. 

Cecilia Salama, ‘You look quite ravishing in your Prada apparel (1)’ (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + LVL3, Chicago.

Chicago-based Meerdo, who’s work explores “the manifestation of meaning through digital translation,” and New York-based Salama who “renders materials to sift through virtual interests and relationships,” have brought their practices together to explore isolation and desire.

Working across mediums, the pieces appropriate and re-imagine materials, from faux fur, uncured resin, bungee cords, a dog harness, meat hooks and velvet ribbons to hydro-print on painted extruded polystyrene, hydrocal, acrylic, an LED screen, chains and USB drives.**

Christopher Meerdo and Cecilia Salama’s Displaced Desire joint is on at Chicago’s LVL3, running September 9 to October 22, 2017