Oct. 03
2025
Girls’ Night Takeover
Date: 5–8 PM Friday, October 03
Doors open: 4 PM Friday
Ticket: Free
Event
Location:
HOOK Space, Fine Arts Building
410 S Michigan Ave, 6th Floor, Suite 632E, Chicago, IL
Shaped by patriarchal systems, gallery spaces often create distance between art and viewers.for one Girls Night we take over and fill the space with intimacy and softness as acts of defiance, turning what is dismissed as trivial into tools of resistance.
This event takes the form of a “pajama party,” inviting women (and those who share women’s experiences) to enter the gallery in their most ordinary, intimate clothing. Combing &Braiding hair, painting nails, chatting, laughing tarot reading —gestures usually seen as “private” or “trivial”—become the very center of the white cube.
This apparent casualness is a form of resistance:
Rejecting the prescribed posture of “refinement” in art spaces;
Disrupting the male gaze, reclaiming bodies and touch within intimate relations;
Expanding the so-called “small things” of women’s lives into public events.
Not decoration, but occupation: a soft, fluid gathering that redefines art as emotion, relation, and resistance.
Inviting Artists:
Aodan
Rowena Liu
Zio
Muchen Wang
Curated by Muchen Wang and Lili Xie
Poster by Lili Xie
Documentation by Lili Xie