Asafe Ghalib

Queer Immigrants (UK)

Asafe Ghalib’s work sets a powerful stage for an intersectionally discriminated against community. Ghalib’s expressive monochrome portraiture is warm and dramatic. Intense contrasts are softened by vintage sepia tones – bodies unafraid to take new, mesmerizing and at times eerie shapes and forms. The othered speak loud, clear and strong. Liquid textures, hard shadows and shape-shifting costumes reminiscently speak of someone who has always been there, yet appears to be an other-worldly entity. The series Queer Immigrants embodies metamorphosing futures and calls to an unseen history in one and the same photograph.

Asafe Ghalibs Arbeit ist ein großer, kraftvoller Auftritt für queere Menschen mit Migrationsgeschichte, die sich doppelter Unsichtbarmachung entgegenstellen. Ghalibs expressive, monochrome Portraitserie ist dramatisch, inszeniert, aber trotzdem warm und einnehmend. Sie sucht den Kontakt zur*m Betrachter*in, zieht sie*ihn in ihren Bann. Intensive Kontraste sind in ein weiches, warmes Sepia-Spektrum gebettet – Körper, die unerschrocken und furchtlos neue Formen suchen, die sich irgendwo zwischen Anziehung und magischer Entrücktheit finden. Sie sind klar, laut und energetisch. Flüssige Texturen, Schlagschatten und gestaltwandelnde Kostüme verkörpern Erscheinungen, die einen Wiedererkennungswert aufrufen. Sie begegnen dir als müsstest du sie kennen. Sie sprechen von Menschen, die schon immer da waren, vielleicht in bisher ungesehenen Welten. Die Serie Queer Immigrants verkörpert metamorphe Zukünfte und ruft ungesehene Geschichte in ein und der selben Fotografie auf.

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Margaret Liang

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Alien

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Asafe Ghalib

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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