Where I Sleep
Friday, September 4, 2026 - Sunday, October 4, 2026
Where I Sleep presents a group of artists who explore the complexities and nuances of what we understand as “home” through a range of photographic practices. Each artist offers a distinct perspective on the relationship between people and the spaces they inhabit, examining how physical environments can become deeply connected to personal identity, memory, and experience.
The works in the exhibition encourage us to look beyond the traditional idea of home as simply a physical place. Instead, home can be a source of comfort, isolation, memory, belonging, or displacement. Through intimate and thoughtful photographic approaches, these artists reveal how ordinary spaces can hold personal histories and emotional significance.
Together, the works invite us to consider the quiet possibilities contained within an individual’s sense of home: the memories that linger within familiar spaces, the stories that emerge from them, and the ways our surroundings influence how we see ourselves and the world around us. Where I Sleep ultimately asks us to reflect on what makes a place feel like home and how photography can preserve, question, and reimagine that connection.
Chicago Fashion Week at Forum 301
Exhibition Date: Friday, October 9, 2026
Fashion is one of the few art forms that connects us all. Before we step into the world, we step into a garment. Every day, we make choices about what we wear, creating compositions that communicate who we are before we ever speak. At Forum 301, this exhibition invites us to consider those choices not simply as style, but as art.
Presented in celebration of Chicago Fashion Week, the exhibition brings together a dynamic selection of garments and fashion-based works that explore the intersection of creativity, craftsmanship, identity, and culture. From streetwear and avant-garde fashion to leatherwork, theatrical garments, lingerie, sustainable design, and experimental approaches, the exhibition highlights the many ways designers use clothing as a medium for artistic expression.
At the heart of the exhibition is the idea that fashion can do more than follow trends. A garment can tell a story through its materials, silhouette, construction, and details. It can reflect personal experience, challenge conventional ideas of presentation, explore culture and identity, or offer a new perspective on the world around us.
The exhibition celebrates designers who approach fashion with intention and individuality, creating work that is original, thoughtful, and unapologetically personal. Together, these works demonstrate how clothing can become a powerful form of visual communication and a means of building culture.
Forum 301 believes that artists often shape culture long before the rest of the world catches up. This exhibition celebrates the perspectives that challenge expectations, refuse to blend in, and remind us that what we wear can be much more than what we see on the surface. It can be art, storytelling, identity, and a statement about who we are.