Chat About: Rebekka Federle-McCabe and Faye Liang is an exhibition in conjunction with the event Chat About: Rebekka Federle and Cecilie Larcher & Caroline Crutsinger-Perry and Faye Liang, February 28, 2025. This exhibition continues the themes of their discussions: Rebekka Faderle-McCabe’s work explores the dog as an armature for empathetic projection, questioning whether anthropomorphization is necessary for empathy. Faye Liang’s album provides glimpses of workers’ lives in the Pearl River Delta Community.
Artists
Rebekka Federle-McCabe is a second-year MFA candidate within DoVA whose work addresses ideas of empathy and misunderstanding.
Faye Liang is a first-year MFA candidate in DoVA, visual artist, and storyteller, born in 1990 in Guangzhou, China. She has worked as a photojournalist since 2015, covering a wide range of social issues in China. After the pandemic, in 2023, she quit her job and participated in an art residency in Switzerland, where she documented the severe retreat of the Alps’ glaciers due to global warming. In 2024, she joined the MFA program at DoVA, focusing on storytelling through everyday objects.
Support
This exhibition is part of the 2025 Chat About x CWAC Exhibitions series. Chat About is a student-run open-critique supported by the Department of Visual Arts and the Department of Art History. Special thank you to Maya D’Acosta, Christian Bumala, and Feifei Wang, Chat About organizers. Installation support and preparation provided by Rebekka Federle-McCabe, Faye Liang, and Anju Lukose-Scott. Didactic texts authored by Caroline Crutsinger-Perry and Cecilie Larcher.
Accessibility
CWAC Exhibitions is committed to accessibility for all our exhibitions. However, the second floor of the Cochrane-Woods Art Center is accessible only by stairs. To request an accommodation or alternative format, please email visualresources@uchicago.edu.
