ROBERT GIARD, NUDES
The nudes began with my first body of work in 1974: a series of self- Thereafter, friends, lovers, and acquaintances served as the occasions for the male nudes…
SHIGEKO KUBOTA, VAGINA PAINTING, 1965
Kubota’s most infamous (and somewhat anomalous) work was Vagina Painting (1965), which she presented as part of the Perpetual Fluxfest, at Cinematheque in New York on July 4, 1965…
ZORA J. MURFF X PICTURING SEX: WHY IS IT SO HARD TO GET AN ACADEMIC ARTS JOB?
Zora shares some of his experiences in navigating the academic arts job market and answers questions from the group. This process is grueling, rife with discrimination, and extremely hard to navigate without the advice of the folks who have walked this path before us…
CHANCE DEVILLE, GROWING TIRED OF CALLOUSED KNEES
Growing Tired of Calloused Knees” attempts to carry the multitude of issues that stem from domestic abuse as a catalyst for mental illness, poverty, and substance abuse. It’s a project that peels itself back, buckling from the pressure; a palatable view of troubled situations attempting resolve…
COURTNEY COLES, MOMMA
The very foundation of my practice is rooted in my fascination with the multiple ways I consider people, places, and memories “home” and my desire to preserve it. I am enthralled by making photographs that are soft and sincere because the world has been anything but to Black queer women like me...
FARAH AL QASIMI, MORE GOOD NEWS, 2017
Al Qasimi examines the use of photography for the purposes of shaping perception and delineating identity, with a focus on men in her respective communities in the United Arab Emirates and the United States…
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WIDLINE CADET, SEREMONI DISPARISYON (RITUAL [DIS]APPEARANCE), 2017-ONGOING
In Seremoni Disparisyon (Ritual [Dis]Appearance) (2017–ongoing), she turns the camera on herself, exploring notions of visibility and Black feminine interiority. Throughout both series, Cadet unpicks ideas of belonging, multiplicity and the fragility of memory…
JESSE KRIMES, PURGATORY, 2009
Purgatory is a series of 300 prison-issued soap remanants depicting "offenders.". Using a hand-printing technique, Krimes transferred the New York Times portrait heads onto wet soap fragments, leaving inverse traces of the appropriated image…
AJAMU X, EARLY WORKS, 1990-1995
Ajamu X (HON FRPS) is a darkroom/fine art photographic artist. His philosophical provocations and aesthetics celebrate black queer bodies, the erotic senses, pleasure, and the sensual-material attributes of image production…
GUADALUPE ROSALES, EL ROCÍO SOBRE LAS MADRUGADAS SIN FIN, 2020
This project is dedicated to the marginalized. It's about unlearning. Learning differently about this other reality of Mexican-American culture in East Los Angeles, California, primarily during the 1990s. Guadalupe Rosales' world was a world among many worlds. Her archival projects Veteranas & Rucas and Map Pointz contain modes of self-representation and visibility: the dichotomy between the good and the bad/ugly…
HÉLÈNE AMOUZOU, SELF-PORTRAITS 1/2
Amouzou thus began photographing herself in the attic with a 35 mm canon camera -and later a Rolleicord - as her lone witness. Not long after, however, she realized that extended exposure times and low-sensitivity films would allow her to move and portray herself without being recognized. Amouzou’s figure appears in motion, traveling through the frame as a fleeting figure…
MARTHA WILSON, I MAKE UP THE IMAGE OF MY PERFECTION/I MAKE UP THE IMAGE OF MY DEFORMITY, 1974/2008
Martha Wilson "I Make Up the Image of My Perfection/I Make Up The Image of My Deformity". A real pioneer in using performance as an artistic medium in itself, Martha Wilson stages her body, and as an actress would do, grinds and transforms herself, creating multiple self-portraits becoming subversive characters…
HE CHENGYAO, TESTIMONY, 2001–2002
The photograph presented in the exhibition is one of three works from the series "Testimony", presenting portraits of the artist, her mother and son. Large-format photographs, maintained in a similar style, bring to mind classical Baroque painting: brightly lit figures shown against a uniformly dark background…
ANNA GAJEWSZKY, IN THE SEARCH FOR VENUS, 2021
The series In the search for Venus depicts an intimate examination of my femininity, my body and its comparison to ancient portrayals of Venus. I was 18 years old when I was told by several doctors I had fertility issues, and that becoming pregnant would be difficult for me…
MATILDA YUEYANG PENG, SPECIAL MATERIALS
People made of special materials” is a phrase commonly used to promote the realization of self-fulfillment and self-sacrifice in the communist context. Revolving around the effect of the Chinese Cultural Revolution on my family history, this project is a visualization of a “monologue” constantly going on between all times, people, and materials, especially the single-sided conversation that is speaking to and influencing generations of continual products of historical events...
DONNA GOTTSCHALK, IMAGES FROM “BRAVE, BEAUTIFUL OUTLAWS”
Donna Gottschalk, a photographer active in the early period of radical lesbian organizing in New York and California during the 1970s. Gottschalk came out as a lesbian right at the formation of the radical lesbians and Furies collectives on the east coast, where she met lesbian artists JEB (Joan E. Biren), Flavia Rando, and others, and later moved to California to join lesbian-separatist communities…
SHELLY SILVER, WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR, 2004,
A woman sets out to photograph moments of intimacy. On an Internet dating site she writes: 'I'm looking for people who would like to be photographed in public revealing something of themselves...
SABELO MLANGENI, COUNTRY GIRLS, 2003-2009
Glamour and grittiness combine in Sabelo Mlangeni's Country Girls series, an intimate portrait of gay life in the countryside. Mlangeni took the photographs in small towns and rural areas in the Mpumalanga province. Driefontein, Ermelo, Bethal, Piet Retief, Standerton and Sekunda - nodes of mining, agriculture, forestry, and coal-fed power stations….
OLIVIA ARTHUR, MURMURINGS OF THE SKIN
For the past few years I have been making work about the relationship that we have to our bodies as humans. The work grew out of a fascination I developed after being pregnant and feeling my body as a machine performing an incredible task. I went on to explore intimacy, touch, physical connection, stability and the ways we use technology to enhance all those things…
METTE INGVARTSEN, 21 PORNOGRAPHIES, 2017
Writing a novel about libertinage from his prison cell in 1785, Marquis de Sade declared that the nature of human passions authorizes crime. This moment in Western modernity marks the moral ambivalence in the bind between sexual liberation and power…