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

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.  

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

Exhibition at Bermondsey Project Space (BPS) 

183-185 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3UW 

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

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

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 

Installation: Sunday 12 / Monday 13 February 

Exhibition: Tuesday 14 - Saturday 18 February 

Opening Reception: Wednesday 15 February (suggested, TBC) 

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.

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 

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