Natalia Różycka
Love by Natalia Różycka brings the subtle and fluid shades of queer relationships to life. Even though Różycka shows abstract and fluid shapes and forms, the work is narrative.
Alien’s Bodybuilders are living and breathing artworks. Alien gives a bright and vivid exclusive into queer performance cultures from the UK. The series of full figure portraits, close ups, video stills and cut outs amplifies how queer self expression can powerfully adapt ideas of monstrosity to embrace autonomous bodily imagination. With a distinct feel for the iconic image, Alien reduces some portraits to fragmented cut outs while placing others in natural settings or others even in studio set ups. The series shows that queer empowerment in the form of performative self-exploration makes a point no matter where it’s at. Everybody wants to be a hot little monster.
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Love by Natalia Różycka brings the subtle and fluid shades of queer relationships to life. Even though Różycka shows abstract and fluid shapes and forms, the work is narrative.
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Margaret Liang’s subjects, including the artist, claim their space with a calm yet determined focus. Instruments of creating a self-determined body image appear as highly stylised icons of resolution.
Alien’s Bodybuilders are living and breathing artworks. Alien gives a bright and vivid exclusive into queer performance cultures from the UK.
Asafe Ghalib’s work sets a powerful stage for an intersectionally discriminated against community. Ghalib’s expressive monochrome portraiture is warm and dramatic.
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