July 12 – 27
Tickets
All tickets to the 2025 Pivot Arts Festival are free and available at no charge. Registration is required, donations are welcome.
Visual artist and immersive storyteller Alonso Galue transforms the Wirtz Center Chicago into a gallery site of myth and rupture in Paradise Aliens, a series of monumental murals confronting the trauma of displacement and the chaos of border politics. Drawing from Andean cosmology and folkloric symbolism, Galue renders exile as both psychic and spiritual terrain — inviting viewers into dreamlike landscapes inhabited by gas-masked figures, macaw-winged deities, and fractured monuments.
PARADISE ALIENS
Saturday July 12 & Sunday July 27
[open exhibition during festival events]
Wirtz Center Chicago
170 N Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60611