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“Your Love Was Lent.”, 2020 Graphite on Fabriano with Beech Ply Mount, 13 x 13 x 2 cm
“Long Weekend.”, 2020 Graphite on Fabriano with Beech Ply Mount, 13 x 13 x 2 cm
“Together Alone.”, 2020 Graphite on Fabriano with Beech Ply Mount, 13 x 13 x 2 cm
“These Things We Did and Didn’t Do.”, 2020 Graphite on Fabriano with Beech Ply Mount, 13 x 13 x 2 cm
“Goodnight, Wherever You Are Sleeping.”, 2020 Graphite on Fabriano with Beech Ply Mount, 13 x 13 x 2 cm
“Maybe We Will Lead to Nothing.”, 2020 Graphite on Fabriano with Beech Ply Mount, 13 x 13 x 2 cm
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“Leftover Wine”, 2020 Graphite on Fabriano with Beech Ply Mount, 13 x 13 x 2 cm
“Just Take My Hand for a While.”, 2020 Graphite on Fabriano with Beech Ply Mount, 13 x 13 x 2 cm
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“We Bled Inside Each Other’s Wounds.”, 2020 Graphite on Fabriano with Beech Ply Mount, 13 x 13 x 2 cm
“Hey Kid, Good Morning. You Look Like an Angel.”, 2020 Graphite on Fabriano with Beech Ply Mount, 13 x 13 x 2 cm
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“Until It’s Time For You To Go”, 2020 Vinyl Text Installation, Dimensions Variable.
“Until It’s Time For You To Go” (detail), 2020 Vinyl Text Installation, Dimensions Variable.
“A Song to Keep You Company #1”, 2020
Music Digitally Composed from Participant’s DNA, 2’11”
“A Song to Keep You Company #2”, 2020
Music Digitally Composed from Participant’s DNA, 11’05”
“A Song to Keep You Company #3”, 2020
Music Digitally Composed from Participant’s DNA, 4’22”
“A Song to Keep You Company #4”, 2020
Music Digitally Composed from Participant’s DNA, 2’11”
“A Song to Keep You Company #5”, 2020
Music Digitally Composed from Participant’s DNA, 4’53”
"I never wanted to build a “body of work,” but to preserve these, our bodies, breathing and unaccounted for, inside the work.
Take it or leave it. The body, I mean."
- Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
This work explores moments of intimacy and connection between queer bodies. Through drawing, sound and text this exhibition unfolds intimate acts and feelings of closeness in casual circumstances, an impermissible situation within the current social restrictions.
A series of digitally rendered drawings of the hands of five male casual sexual partners, reference Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam. An iconic image embedded in, and inextricable from, definitions of communion, creation and humanity. The drawings reveal the limits of the process of their technological creation through glitches and malfunctions. Hypothetically capable of rendering the “perfect” drawing, the outputs convey a mimicry of human capability for error. The simulacra of bodily creation through digital methods references the disjointed nature of the sexual encounters that began the work, reducing the intimate act to a meaningless transactional reproduction.
These drawings unite with the sound playing in the gallery space. To create a symphony of lovers past, the artist asked these five dalliances for their DNA samples that he then processed to create music extracted from their individual genetic code. The music you hear is a codified expression of the individuals’ genetic code. DNA markers are assigned specific notes before being algorithmically harmonised. The music is the song of the disembodied body, separated from its original context, imbued with its own agency.