made jagged exhibition at Cool Change Contemporary (Boorloo/Perth) in 2021.
This exhibition forms one phase of a transformative progression of works speaking to the erasure of queer people from history and of the ways queerness has yet endured. Locating Medusa as a queered mythic icon and a conduit for re-appropriating monsterisation. The work invites you to share an impression of your own attachment to the transformative, monsterised or mythological.
Made jagged plays off and re-appropriates language and tropes which have been systematically employed in the monsterisation of ‘the other’, employing a queer sensibility of transmogrification and vandalism, to locate corrupted histories and project a wild and vengeful blueprint for betraying binaries.
The premise of the work accepts Medusa as a mythological queer icon and launching point for collaborative and accumulative queered resistance and rebellion. Considering how queer deities might be considered by a collective/community of queer consciousness?
Trade-in Tag: DROPS FROM THE GORGONS HEAD FELL BLOODY ON THE GROUND, AND EARTH RECEIVED THEM TURNING THEM INTO VIPERS studio documentation, 2021
Printed fabric, swivel hook clip, and acrylic polymer paint
24 x 8 cm