When the body is queer, I feel free

Exhibition Dates: 14.03.2022 – 22.03.2025

Two-day Vernissage during Open Studios: Friday, March 14, 18:00-21:00, Saturday, March 15, 15:00-21:00

General Opening Times: Tuesday to Saturday, 14:00-18:00, closed on Sundays

Curator Walk Through & Artist talk: Wednesday, March 19, 19:00

 

 

In a time marked by crises, where hegemonic competitive forms of relationships lead people to turn away from each other rather than come together, the exhibition When the body is queer, I feel free explores an alternative perspective on the future.

To do so, it first examines the societal differentiation and hierarchization of bodies and ways of being. It encourages visitors to become aware of the resulting violence and suggests the interrelations that stabilize this social structure.

The title quote then serves as a guiding element out of this entanglement. It invites visitors to traverse the existing ways of being and instructs them to engage creatively with the current orders, rearranging the given components in new ways that are guided by vulnerability, care and dependency.

The exhibition wants to make the constructedness of current power relations visible. It suggests that by que(e)ring them, we are able to transform not only the individual but also the collective body as a whole.

The exhibition begins with the work People like you should be burned by Andrew Barry O’Malley which explores the tension between normative violence and self-determined ways of living. The exhibition concludes with two paintings by Rory Midhani, in which different bodies coexist in (utopian) harmony, free from comparative norms. In between these two atmospheric spaces, the different artistic perspectives ask the visitor to engage with the urge to find new forms of relating.

 

 

Participating Artists: 

 

Andrew Barry O’Malley

 

 

 

Johnny McMillan

 

 

 

Mike D’hondt

 

 

 

Miriam Poletti

 

 

 

Rory Midhani

 

 

 

Stella Wiemann

 

 

 

Uta Bekaia

 

 

About the Curator: Pauline Kling is part of GloguaAIR’s recently established curatorial residency program. Curatorial residents have the opportunity to meet and engage with the artists and curators in our program, as well as develop their own projects. Kling’s research is informed by critical analysis, as well as queer-feminist and relational theory. She is interested in the emancipatory and transformative potential of que(e)ring heteronormative ways of societal relations.