ON VIEW
Where: Filter Photo, 1821 W Hubbard St., Chicago, IL
When: August 28 - October 3, 2020
Work(s) On View: Nothing's Lost Forever [Community]
Artist Statement:
Nothing’s Lost Forever brings two separate bodies of work into a dialogue between the past and the present. Polaroid images produced on an SX-70 camera during the summer of 2019 serve as memorials to now-inaccessible expressions of queer community and intimacy, both essential forms of queer identity. Conversely, black & white medium format film images signal the physical, emotional, & relational interiorities of isolation, functioning as a series of image-based & home-produced journal entries encompassing progressive experiences of loneliness, fear, and loss throughout the quarantine of 2020.
When placed into conversation with each other, the images subtley invite the viewer to recall more significant periods of plagues, losses, and isolations faced by queer generations past while assuming the perspective that our present “pasts” were the uncertain futures of those who came before us. In that way, the works are transfigured into talismans of hope for another queer future when, to paraphrase Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, a great net of souls will once again join hands and be repaired, because nothing’s lost forever.
Nothing's Lost Forever [Intimacy]
Nothing's Lost Forever [Culture]
Nothing's Lost Forever [Strength]
Nothing's Lost Forever [Community]
Nothing's Lost Forever [Connection]