BERNICE MULENGA, SELECT SELF PORTRAITS, 2019-2022
Bernice Mulenga is a British-Congolese photographer with a distinct aptitude for archiving, documenting and interrogating the world around them…
GUERRILLA GIRLS, REPUBLICANS DO BELIEVE IN A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO CONTROL HER OWN BODY, 1992
In the eighties, the Guerrilla Girls decided to incorporate new strategies to the feminism of the seventies, such as humour and stridence, wit and laughter. Although still influenced by the pioneering work of artists such as Judy Chicago and art critic Lucy Lippard denouncing the invisibility of women in the art world…
ENRIQUE CASTREJON, INTIMATE EMBRACES
I create measured drawings, paintings, sound pieces to investigate, question and describe what I see in varied images of pop-culture, architecture, war, senseless acts of violence, disease, fragmented bodies, and death…
MADONNA, SEX, 1992
Sex is a 1992 coffee table book written by American singer Madonna, with photography by Steven Meisel Studio and Fabien Baron. It was edited by Glenn O'Brien and published by Warner Books, Maverick and Callaway…
WANGECHI MUTU, HISTOLOGY OF THE DIFFERENT CLASSES OF UTERINE TUMORS, 2006
This set of twelve mixed-media works was made early in Mutu’s career, at a point when her practice was focused on collage. Drawing from disparate sources including medical journals, fashion magazines, pornography, and ethnographic texts, Mutu’s way of critiquing these publications is to cut them up and reassemble them for her own means…
NIKO KRIVANEK, SEVIER COUNTY, 2023
Sevier county is a photographic retracing of the family vacation taken by Krivanek’s mother at 10 years old. The images in the project seek freedom as Krivanek tries to reconnect with a version of his mother that exists prior to her incarceration…
SHARON HAYES, WOMEN OF THE WORLD UNITE, THEY SAID, 2014
I was intrigued by the question of how one shouts in text. I was engaged by the ambition and impossibility of the demand that is being made. And I was moved by the complexities that trans politics brings to the political identification with a term like “women”…
CINDY SHERMAN, SEX PICTURES, 1992
In 1992, Sherman produced a series of sex pictures using artificial body parts purchased from medical supply catalogues and typically employed for educational purposes. In this work, recalling the debased anatomical survey of a pornographic shot, detailed prostheses form a surrogate body…
NYKELLE DEVIVO, THE CROSSROADS, 2013-2024
Raised in a deeply religious household and honoring the language of Afro Spiritualism, my images reflect lifetimes of reverence for the divine. Throughout the diaspora (and from antiquity to our futures), we’ve relied on the ancient technology of refracted light as a tool for divination, which, with intentionality, can be used to embody (or catch) holy spirits...
NANDITA RAMAN, WHEN MOUNTAINS RISE AND FALL LIKE WAVES
Louise Bourgeois talks of the unconscious and attempts to draw a petal on a grid. The grid and the unconscious are so far apart that a spacious ground emerges between them. This body of work finds the opposites only to discover that the distance between them is contingent on where one stands...
DARBY ROUTTENBERG, MISS PLUS AMERICA, 2023-ONGOING
This is un ongoing project where I am to explore plus size, body positive spaces...
JESS T. DUGAN, LOOK AT ME LIKE YOU LOVE ME, 2015-2022
“In Look at me like you love me, Jess T. Dugan reflects on desire, intimacy, companionship, and the ways our identities are shaped by these experiences…
JILL POSENER, THE ON OUR BACKS YEARS
When I first came to San Francisco in the late 80’s, I was running away from a Britain that I could no longer tolerate. Thatcher was Prime Minister and intolerance was pervasive. I couldn’t find a place to feel comfortable...
MEG TURNER, WET, 2014-ONGOING
Collected as a prototype for my first artist book, Wet is a series of 46 tintype portraits taken between new orleans and new york (with a few Texas and Florida trips) between 2014 and today. The theme of water runs a slow and steady thread through the layout - bodies of water by which we feel our own bodies, our own relaxation and divinity, bodies of water which turn to smoke in the process of long outdoor exposures...
ANONYMOUS, SEX DOLL POLAROIDS
The photo sets feature commercially-available dolls with added genitalia. The maker has set up tableaus and made photographic series that tell stories of straight, gay, and group scenes. We have not definitively dated them, but they are probably from the 1970s...
GROANA MELENDEZ, EL NOMBRE MÍO, AJENO
El Nombre Mío, Ajeno is an exhibition of photographs, videos and other lens-based works by Groana Melendez. In this work Groana creates an understanding of the interconnectedness of relationships, class and identity...
DANIEL RAMPULLA, COLLAPSE
Collapse, comes from this very nod to connection, two bodies “collapsing” together, the “collapse” of two people into one relationship, or the “collapse” of a dune as the shore begins to recede...
GOLDEN, ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE THIS IS NOT YOUR HISTORY, 2016
Robert Mapplethorpe This Is Not Your History was created as a direct retaliation to the Portfolio Z series shot and captured by Robert Mapplethorpe in the late ’70s. In photo history, Mapplethorpe’s works are often sourced and attributed as visual etymologies for queer representations—losing sight of how the gaze of whiteness makes a spectacle of blackness when its being is rendered as just ‘body.’..
RACHEL JUMP, ORIGINS
For most of my childhood our lives were scattered over countless households. My disparate memories of these places merely composed a fragmented idea of home. Later in life I began to question how my identity was shaped without a point of origin...
NICOLO GENTILE, PUT TO WREST, 2023
Nicolo Gentile’s installations reference motifs of the queer experience including kink and competitive/obsessive physique-building, as seen in material choices ranging from leather and latex to iron and steel...