Alterations is a group exhibition presenting the work of fourteen emerging artists from a semester-long photography project at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Developed under the guidance of Professor Galit Aloni, the exhibition reflects an intensive period of experimentation, risk, and material inquiry.

Across the works, photography becomes a site of transformation rather than documentation. Images are cut, layered, distorted, and reassembled, challenging the expectation of the photograph as a fixed or truthful object. Each artist engages alteration as both a conceptual and physical process, using the medium to question perception, memory, identity, and the instability of representation.

The exhibition brings together a range of approaches, from subtle interventions to more aggressive manipulations, highlighting how photographic practice can expand beyond the frame into object, installation, and spatial experience. What emerges is not a singular definition of photography, but a collective investigation into how images can be pushed, broken, and reimagined.

Curated by Daniel Lee and Mike Michalski