© koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2018 | doi 10.1163/23523085-00403010 REVIEWS 338 Aram Han Sifuentes: Protest Banner Lending Library Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago/multiple locations (travelling installation/ workshops) 17 January–17 May 2017. At first encounter, Aram Han Sifuentes’ Protest Banner Lending Library is more an open studio than an exhibition (fig. 1). An active workspace, the installa- tion produced in the public residency space at the Chicago Cultural Center in 2017 invited viewers to participate through collaborative banner workshops and by borrowing banners to use at protests. Emerging from the consequences of being a non-citizen in the racist, xenophobic environment of an inevitable Trump presidency, Han Sifuentes felt increasing pressure to avoid public dis- plays of protest out of fear for her safety. Prompting a project that opened the possibility for historically marginalized people to have access to public spaces in their physical absence, the Library began to deconstruct assumptions under which participants at public protest events were able to engage. Shifting how historically marginalized people can begin to reassert their voice and presence in such situations offers a necessary intervention that expands the expressive capacity of an archive in its shape and behaviour, further providing a critique of the site of protest in increasingly troubled times. Figure 1 Aram Han Sifuentes, installation view of Protest Banner Lending Library, 2017, Chicago Cultural Center. Photograph provided by Eedahahm and the artist.