The Confessional was designed to move in and out of spaces with ease. It was built out of light materials and for a tool-less assembly in the summer of 2018 by a team of artists and designers including Ahu Yolac, Angela Inez Baldus, Henry Wilson, Zack Tucker, and Krannert Art Museum’s exhibit and installation expert Walter Wilson. Following its construction, The Confessional has played host to artists Erin Hayden, Lila Ann Dodge, Adrian Wong, Catalina Hernández Cabal, Paulina Camacho Valencia, Alicia De Léon, and Sarah Travis. These artists have worked to collaborate with the space positioned in various locations including the Sipyard, an experimental outdoor bar in downtown Urbana, Illinois, Monaco, an artist-run gallery space in St. Louis Missouri, and the Link Gallery, a commons located between the School of Art + Design at the University of Illinois and the Krannert Art Museum. The Confessional was designed as a short-term arts-based research project. It’s current iteration is called Gallery West and is run by Ali Akyuz and students at Normal West High School in Normal, Illinois.
One main text was written and distributed in two ways in the spring of 2019. You can find these texts by going here and here.
