Dovetail

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Tooled leather satchel, $48.

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Earnest Sewn high-waist denim trousers, size 29, $70.  Champagne blouse, size medium, $30.

Fantastic finely woven wool two-piece (skirt and cardigan). Black piping around cardigan and 20ish buttons adorn the cardigan. These would great worn separately, don’t you think? Size small/medium. By Nipon Boutique. $62

Join us tonight at Dovetail as we celebrate the opening of WITH US, a photographic exhibition by Leslie Bembinster and Chistopher Hainey.

7pm-10pm at Dovetail, 1452 W Chicago Ave.

Dovetail will serve complimentary drinks and snacks. All summer merchandise will be 50% off!

Refinery29 thinks you should check it out!

About the show:

Set against the backdrop of an other-worldly invasion, the exhibition “With Us” considers the human experience amidst an abstruse threat.  Through medium format photography, Chicago artists Leslie Bembinster and Christopher Hainey (of local band Maps and Atlases) capture specific reactionary moments to off-camera, unseen occurrences with mid-century overtones of scientific curiosity and technological fear.

“Our background is in science and cinematography,” explains Hainey on the collaboration, “with each photograph composed as a storyline snapshot with an assumed beginning and end.”

With a nod to 1950s alien invasion films, the photographs are arranged as film stills that compose a science fiction narrative.  Rather than using tongue-in-cheek martians or digitized special effects, the duo focuses on capturing the dynamic human element of response that is consistently juxtaposed against a stoic, calm machine.

“We wanted to maintain an ambiguity of the subject,” Bembinster hints at meaning behind the collection title. “We present the visible man and the unseen impetus.”

The collection moves the viewer through the fictional narrative as each photograph elucidates an increasing intensity of the communication struggle between technology and its maker. Emotion and human vulnerability are captured through the stages of the off-camera attack, portraying a haunting, omnipotent presence of science as a both a limiting protector and a catalyst of destruction.

Photographs for the collection were taken throughout the Chicago area, from the West Town neighborhood to the notable scientific institution, Fermilab.