Signs and Symptoms by Chloe Crawford at Slightly Cafe

Statement from the Artist:

This work is about interacting with the world as a disabled person. I am interested in what non-disabled people know about disability (the signs), and how that differs from what disabled people know (the symptoms).

The work hangs at different heights with different perspectives, altering typical single-level displays which reserve the most privileged views for people whose eyes fall precisely five feet from the ground.

I invoke the overlooked and underestimated through everyday objects, teenage girls, and stay-at-home crafters as my stylistic influences. This shares a conceptual framework with disability: disabled people are routinely invisible and our contributions marginalized; we have historically been, and continue to be in many parts of the world, shut-in, self-taught outsiders.

My process involves self-imposing barriers, like hanging a canvas out of my reach in Reach New Heights I & II, and problem-solving barriers, like printing an image on a towel for easier movability in New Wheels.

Find Chloe online at chloepascalcrawford.com

The exhibition Signs and Symptoms by Chloe Crawford was on view February 24th – March 29th, 2018 at Slightly Cafe.