SOFT & HARD: beyond recognition and queer coding Curated by Whiskey Chow

What does “queer spirit” mean for visual artists in their practice nowadays? How new generation queer artists create space for themselves and their community through materiality and image construction that goes beyond vanity, hypersexuality and exaggerated gender performativity?

Living in different timelines of LGBTQ+ movements and constantly negotiating with complex power dynamic from an intersectional and cross-cultural perspective, queer artists today are seemingly inventing new art vocabulary and approach to address their desire, concern and pertinent inquiry.

Fabricating and manifesting

Problematizing and indicating

Transgressing and redefining

With no guaranteed destinations, 13 Artists from RCA Sculpture are going to show you something instead of telling you something.

It’s stormy and it’s souly.

It’s SOFT and it’s HARD.

Exhibition at Bermondsey Project Space (BPS)

183-185 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3UW

https://project-space.london/

Timetable:

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE AVAILABLE FOR ALL OF THE DATES AND ACTIVITIES BELOW

Monday 23 January, 3pm - 4pm: First meeting at Battersea

Thursday 26 January:

2pm - 3.30pm: Site visit + meeting with Andrew Etherington (Gallery Director of BPS) 3.30pm - 4pm: Current exhibition viewing

4pm - 4.40pm: Conversation with artist Jonathan Armour (https://thearmourstudio.com/) who curates the exhibition

Thursday 2 February: Deadline of submitting proposal

The exhibition schedule would be:

Delivery: Sunday 12 February

Installation: Sunday 12 / Monday 13 February

Exhibition: Tuesday 14 - Saturday 18 February

Opening Reception: Wednesday 15 February (suggested, TBC)

Take down / Removal: Sunday 19 February

Bermondsey Project Space will fully support the exhibition for its duration, as follows: The use of the fully-staffed exhibition space for the duration of the show. Assistance with installation of the works.

Promotion via BPS’s extensive mailing list of art world contacts and clients. Promotion via the Gallery’s social media channels.

Promotion via our collaboration with GalleriesNow, with details of the show going out to over half-a-million collectors worldwide.

Growing References:

Jack Halberstam - Collapse, Demolition and the Queer Geographies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHkvlJ9pcnM

Jes Fan: the artist probing the intersections of biology, identity and creativity https://www.wallpaper.com/art/jes-fan-artist-profile

Ro Robertson: Flux and Rust

https://www.frieze.com/video/ro-robertson-flux-and-rust

Andrew Thomas Huang : Queer morphologies & digital spirits (November 3, 2021) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSJSIz5nCd4