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.
Festival Exhibition 2023
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Sara Davidmann
KEN. TO BE DESTROYED (UK)
Sara Davidmann takes a narrative approach and works with sentimental and personal found footage. She tells the story of K, a hidden trans biography in her own family history. How can queer stories that were to be forgotten be brought back? Davidmann shows that this endeavour is one of experimentation. She digitally manipulates or hand-colours found black and white photographs, scratches and paints over K’s archived body or transposes K’s face onto a body K wished for herself. Ken. To be destroyed is a moving attempt to do justice, to help deceased queer stories to also come into bodily autonomy – an archival work that reaches beyond the situatedness of one’s family history.
Ken. To be Destroyed ist eine erzählerische, sensible und persönliche Archivarbeit mit gefundenem, bearbeiteten Fotomaterial. Davidmann erzählt die Geschichte einer versteckten Transbiografie in den Tiefen ihrer eigenen Familiengeschichte. Wie können queere Geschichten, die ungesehen gemacht wurden zurück ins kollektive Gedächtnis gebracht werden? Die Künstlerin zeigt, das diese Aufgabe viel Ausprobieren, Experimentieren und Suchen braucht. Sie arbeitet mit digitalen Manipulationen oder koloriert die schwarz-weiß Fotografien aus dem Familienalbum nach, kratzt weg und malt über Ks archivierten Körper. Ks Gesicht bekommt einen Körper, den sie sich vielleicht gewünscht hätte, hätte sie den Raum und die Unterstützung gehabt. Die Arbeit ist der berührende Versuch auch bereits unfrei durchlebten queeren Geschichten ein Stück körperliche Autonomie zurückzugeben. Eine Archivarbeit, die weit über die Situiertheit der eigenen Familienbiografie hinausgeht.
Michael Young
Michal Young plays with the vintage iconography of a gay erotic gaze that shaped Young’s own coming of age times in the late 80s and 90s. One collage shows two fragmented excerpts of vintage gay calendars in a subtle interplay of positive and negative space.
Irina Dmitrovskaya
Irina Dmitrovskaya investigates views on her own sexuality, othered as queer sexuality from the outside. She shows an interplay of closeness and distance, of fragmentation and framing.
Gökhan Tanrıöver
Evidence of My Sexual Misdemeanor is a precise and conceptual photographic dissection of the experience of forced visibility. The Turkish military forces gay men to out themselves in a, by definition, hostile environment.
Sara Davidmann
Sara Davidmann takes a narrative approach and works with sentimental and personal found footage. She tells the story of K, a hidden trans biography in her own family history.
Awuor Onyango, Mal Muga & Namikoye Wanjala
In a formal act of autonomy, Awuor Onyango, Mal Muga and Namikoye Wanjala decided to defy the regulations of the call for single projects and applied as a group with three aesthetically very different projects addressing questions of visibility and queer solidarity.
Margaret Liang
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
Alien’s Bodybuilders are living and breathing artworks. Alien gives a bright and vivid exclusive into queer performance cultures from the UK.
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.
Andrés Gregorio Pérez
Andrés Gregorio Pérez Dead Family series is an autobiographical and collaborative intervention into censored queer childhood memory.
