2023 March 24 - April 6
List Art Center (64 College St) Providence, RI
capstone show
show statement:
How do you express queer identity under systems that demand and deny its legibility?
My performance of my gender identity is a habitual making of myself through established languages of presentation, like those of clothing and speech. To be perceived as myself in a socialized binary gender system is near futile;
I lean into failure so far that it is transformed.
In FABRICATION, I present you with three apparel sculptures called Book Bodies, and I ask you to consider your performance of yourself and every rift between what you communicate and what you experience. Stay awhile. Touch the art. Read it aloud.
My performance of my gender identity is a habitual making of myself through established languages of presentation, like those of clothing and speech. To be perceived as myself in a socialized binary gender system is near futile;
I lean into failure so far that it is transformed.
In FABRICATION, I present you with three apparel sculptures called Book Bodies, and I ask you to consider your performance of yourself and every rift between what you communicate and what you experience. Stay awhile. Touch the art. Read it aloud.
This show included a 4-minute 34-second film featuring trans models Bailey Nicole Phoenix, Lucid Clairvoyant, and danny vasquez. Excerpts from this film are here:
Read more about FABRICATION in the accompanying information guide, ABOUT THESE OBJECTS