Tag: queer
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Zanele Muholi
Anger, hurt, vulnerability, love, togetherness, celebration, passion … South African visual activist Zanele Muholi captures and evinces every imaginable emotion at high intensity
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Catherine Opie – interview: ‘I am in love with the medium of photography and the aesthetic pursuits of what I can do within it’
The photographer, known for her portraits of west-coast queer culture in the 1990s, today turns her camera to making portraits of architecture and cities, including the Vatican
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Trickster Figures: Sculpture and the Body
A clever curation of contemporary sculpture alluding to bodies or systems that relate to bodies, this group exhibition elicits powerful responses that can be felt, not just thought
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Kate Groobey – interview: ‘The drip, for me, is pure joy and a kind of thrill’
The artist talks about bringing her paintings to life through performance, diverse cultural and linguistic influences, and – the subject of her current show – the concept of a ‘female stallion’
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Mahmoud Khaled – interview: ‘It’s a memorial dedicated to the people who cannot sleep’
As he exhibits two large-scale works in London, the Egyptian artist talks about creating museums, heteronormative male privilege – and Hugh Hefner’s bed
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The Queens’ Jubilee! and Let Me Hold You
Marking the 50th anniversary of the UK’s first Gay Pride March, two exhibitions come together in a joyous celebration of the LGBTQ+ community
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Phyllis Christopher – interview: ‘We had come out, people were dying, we had nothing to lose, so we just wanted to have the best party’
The photographer talks about her coming of age in 1990s San Francisco, where, despite the Aids crisis, lesbians, in the post-lesbian feminist era, largely wanted to come together, have fun and create visibility
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Rafael Pérez Evans – interview: ‘Food contains a lot of emotion’
The artist talks about growing up in a farming community in rural Spain, queer and rural shame, and the importance of reuniting living, thinking and making through a practice that disrupts
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Nick Hornby – interview: ‘Liquefied photography is magical and mysterious’
Nick Hornby talks about his shift from art history to personal histories, and combining analogue and digital processes to create photo-sculptural objects
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Christina Quarles – interview: ‘These works are holding onto that slow-fast contrast of a physically still world and this mental chaos’
Created during lockdown, against a backdrop of rising deaths from Covid, the police killing of George Floyd and raging fires across California, the nine new paintings in this show at Pilar Corrias are haunted by melancholy. Quarles spoke to Studio…
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