Imminent Domain
Caitlin Devoy, Robbie Handcock, Jake Preval, ZK Steiner-Fox
30/05/19 –15/06/19
Opened Wednesday 29th May from 5.30pm.
Imminent Domain brings together four artists whose work, in one way or another, deals with the potentiality of queerness. The works in this exhibition consider what identifiers contribute to an artwork being read as queer, using reference points that range from markers of devious sexual undergrounds to a subversion of everyday household objects. The title borrows from a 1996 essay by Christopher Reed where he makes the claim that “no space is totally queer or completely unqueerable, but some spaces are queerer than others”. Spanning across photography, sculpture, painting and video, Imminent Domain explores how we might navigate our surroundings, and each other, using sexuality as a compass.
Curated by Robbie Handcock.
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Caitlin Devoy, Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington
Robbie Handcock, Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington
Jake Preval, Melbourne
ZK Steiner-Fox, Berlin/Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland
Photography by Pippy McClenaghan
Design by Brad Heappey.
