Maddie Lychek: MFA Thesis exhibition

Maddie Lychek's MFA Thesis exhibition "Could Be a Person or Multiple Hotdogs" subverts dominant narratives surrounding racialization, diaspora, and queerness by a refusal to flatten the artist’s multiple identities (Filipino, Slovak, masculine, lesbian) in ways that align with broader institutional narratives of inclusion. This crude multiple projection installation peels back the layers of identity but does not settle them, instead you witness the entire anxious, calm, shameful, prideful, solitary, collective, familial, and vulgar—whole.