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Philip Brophy

...(illegible)... 25 Jul – 24 Aug 2019

The exhibition …(illegible)… offers a fascinating exquisite corpse for conceptual consideration: the sliced intersection between ‘queer’ and ‘abstraction’. Their categorical differences within art channels are manifold: where queer is performative, salacious, interruptive and disingenuine, abstraction is constructural, metaphysical, holistic and earnest. That they are assumed to never categorically meet, align, breach and destabilise each other is grounds enough for curator Andrew Atchinson’s conceit. His curation queers the dour historicised correctness of the inflamed 80s/90s crossover of activised art by embracing extant moments and imagining future possibilities so that artists can voice their concerns in unfitting ways.

Briony Galligan, Opening appearance 2016/19, flannelette, PVC, cotton, pine, acrylic, mirror ball motor and aluminium fixings. Photograph: Matthew Stanton.
Briony Galligan, Opening appearance 2016/19, flannelette, PVC, cotton, pine, acrylic, mirror ball motor and aluminium fixings. Photograph: Matthew Stanton.

Philip Brophy writes on art among other things.

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