Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen‘s comedy How Great is Your Darkness?, originally created for the 2024 Venice Biennale, is on view at the Design Museum of Chicago until 18 January 2027 as part of the exhibition Voices Embodied: Prognostication.

The exhibition is part of the ongoing Voices Embodied exhibition series, which explores disability, identity, access, and the body through art. Featuring 38 local, national, and international artists, along with films and performances, the exhibition imagines a disability-forward future and challenges traditional ideas of museum spaces, design, and accessibility.

How Great is Your Darkness? is about hate speech directed at disabled people in social and healthcare services.

The version presented in the exhibition features music composed by the blind musician Kemal Gorey solely on the basis of the audio description.

The film is produced by Kenno Filmi / Danai Anagnostou and was commissioned by Frame Contemporary Art Finland 2024.

Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen is a multidisciplinary artist, speaker and a disability activist. She lectures about political disability art, aesthetics of assistive devices and issues related to women with disabilities. She has facilitated social art workshops and participated in exhibitions in Finland and abroad. In 2019, she received the State Prize for Multidisciplinary Art and in 2016 the Municipal Art Award of Nurmijärvi. She has osteogenesis imperfecta as a piquant characteristic.

Photo: Ella Kärkkäinen.

Voices Embodied: Prognostication
June 26th, 2026 – January 18th, 2027
Design Museum of Chicago
Chicago, USA

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