Solo show at the James Hockey Gallery, UCA Farnham 

18th January - 24th February 2023

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To reclaim 'the land' for queer people means to travel through time, space and beyond normative notions of reality to find new ways of living with and in nature, a quest which becomes at the same time a spiritual endeavour.

 

This exhibition stems from three years of practice-based research for a PhD in Fine Arts, focusing on the intersection between Land art, Queer Spirit and neo-materialism. It consists of five videos and a creative writing piece/poem attempting to disrupt (hetero)normative idea(l)s of (being in) nature, together with unsettling historical art practices such as Land art.

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Using video and creative writing makes queering a space for speculative world-making, a process to re-imagine and re-think our relationship with nature and the other(s), human and more-than-human, ultimately reclaiming the land for queer visions and new ways of being together.

 

“It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with” (Haraway, D.J., 2016. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press, pg. 12).