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PINK CONDITION


A GROUP EXHIBITION PINK PRESENTED BY HARD RETURN, CHICAGO. 

OPENING FIRDAY, FEBUARY 13THPINK CONDITION is a group exhibition that investigates the aesthetic, political, and emotional charge of the color pink. The show invites artists to consider pink not as a static hue but as a cultural code, one that has communicated queerness, softness, protest, desire, and contradiction across time.

The exhibition asks:
  • What does pink signal now?
  • What identities, gestures, or histories arrive with pink?
  • How can a single color complicate legacy, gender, visibility, and the body?

Pink is both sweet and sharp, tender and hostile, a site of tension. From industrial insulation to neon storefront glow, from blush and bruise to bubblegum and birth, pink carries emotional and political density. At Hard Return—an exhibition space already associated with critical material inquiry—the show becomes a “return” to color as both medium and message.

Artists working in any medium, typographic, sculptural, photographic, sonic, durational, or digital—will be invited to submit pieces that use pink as a primary material, concept, or emotional engine. The gallery will be transformed into a monochromatic environment: a place where pink saturates space, but each artist’s interpretation destabilizes its meaning.

PINK AS TENDER MATERIAL PINK AS EVIDENCE PINK AS INTERVAL. A MONOCROME OF DESIRE