JOIRI MINAYA, THE CLOAKING SERIES
The Cloaking series challenges the presence of colonial statues in urban spaces, using colorful spandex fabric to conceal and simultaneously bring attention to these monuments, questioning which narratives get memorialized and which are omitted…
BARBARA HAMMER, SUPERDYKE, 1975
Superdyke is a gem from early liberation days. Influenced by feminism and lesbian militancy, Hammer’s films are politically pointed, bearing witness to lesbian empowerment and visibility, and formally sophisticated, fully cognizant of experimental film history…
PEGGY AHWESH, PHILOSOPHY IN THE BEDROOM, 1993
A home-movie paean to the Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in the Bedroom plumbs the depths of boudoir small talk. In the first part, a newly-acquainted odd couple discuss desire—and lack thereof—over a bag of potato chips. In the second part, a recumbent woman describes her partner and herself as "the John and Yoko of the '90s."…
SABELO MLANGENI, THE ROYAL HOUSE OF ALLURE
Like many cities in the world Lagos is a city of extremes. Individuals who fit into the mould of heteronormativity (especially those protected by wealth) are considered worthy of protection and celebration while others (feminised, queer and poor bodies) are rendered invisible and unworthy…
DEL LAGRACE VOLCANO, LOVE LUST & LEGACY
Love, Lust & Legacy: 40 Years of Queer Service to the Cause is the result of four decades of creating images with people who exist outside the bi-polar binaries of sex and gender…
BRUCE LABRUCE, SUPER 8½, 1994
LaBruce’s quasi-autobiographical sophomore effort tells the story of “Bruce,” a porn auteur with avant-garde ambitions…
ANDREA FRASER, UNTITLED, 2003
The central action in Untitled has Fraser and a male client of her US gallery meet for a session of sex and video recording in a New York hotel room. This is the part of the work that suggests an archetypal narrative…
CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN, FUSES, 1964-67
Fuses was made as an homage to a relationship of ten years—to a man with whom I lived and worked as an equal. We are perceived through the eyes of our cat…
LINDA TROELLER, TB-AIDS DIARY
The careful assemblage of personal images and texts that make up Linda Troeller's TB-AIDS Diary confronts the social stigma of disease in a manner that is at once gentle and uncompromising…
WU TSANG, WE HOLD WHERE STUDY, 2017
The feeling of communication is very elusive,” Tsang has said. “In being seen by another, there’s always an incompleteness to that understanding…
ALVIN BALTROP, THE PIERS
Powerful, lyrical and controversial, Alvin Baltrop's photographs are a groundbreaking exploration of clandestine gay culture in New York in the 1970s and 80s…
ELLIOTT JEROME BROWN JR, SELF-TITLED EXHIBITION, 2022
The exhibition presented a series of new portraits and abstract photographs as a reflection on materiality, memory, and intimacy…
DEANA LAWSON, AN APERTURE MONOGRAPH, 2018
This is the first monograph on the photography of Deana Lawson, who has created a visionary language to describe identities through intimate portraiture and striking accounts of ceremonies and rituals…
PARIS IS BURNING, JENNIE LIVINGSTON, 1990
Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene…
TEXAS ISAIAH, MY NAME IS MY NAME
My Name is My Name incorporates photography and a system of celebration (altar) to highlight the multi-dimensional relationship between ancestry, ceremonial rituals, elements within nature, dream etching, and protection…
CHI YIN SIM, THE SUITCASE IS A LITTLE BIT ROTTEN, 2023
“The suitcase is a little bit rotten” is a conceptual series of work using new and found imagery to speculate on the potentialities of transgenerational memory and inheritance, between the artist’s socialist grandfather – a political activist in British Malaya executed for his politics during the Cold War…
ISAAC JULIEN, LOOKING FOR LANGSTON, 1989
Looking for Langston is a lyrical exploration - and recreation - of the private world of poet, novelist and playwright Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967) and his fellow black artists from the Harlem Renaissance…
CARLOS MOTTA, LEGACY, 2019
A 30-minute video endurance performance by Carlos Motta, Legacy, presents the artist, looking directly at the camera and wearing a dental gag, as he tries to repeat, from memory, a timeline of HIV/AIDS, from to 1908 until 2019, spoken at him by American radio journalist Ari Shapiro…
ANA MENDIETA, SILUETA SERIES, 1973-1978
Her Silueta (Silhouette) series (begun in 1973) used a typology of abstracted feminine forms, through which she hoped to access an omnipresent female force…
PINAR YOLAÇAN, MOTHER GODDESS
Mother Goddess, published by Baron, showcases the work of artist Pinar Yolaçan and serves as an artefact of her visual explorations of the body, along the themes of gender and otherness…