Lust*Art

This exhibition contains longing past and future tenses that reimagine themselves. Queerness propels us forward, making us feel that this world is not enough to live and find peace. The utopia of this space is what makes queerness so fundamental to imagining novel ways of living and loving each other. Creating an exhibition that combines feminist ideas and queer utopias means creating a safe space where lust and dream can be as real as past wounds.

Big red lips invite you to surrender to a space of encounter, bodily objects incite you to discover new desires as well as long-lasting fears. While the banquet is served, we reopen old wounds, the lips are now withdrawn. Longing fear and hope alternate on the walls of the room, queer-lust and queer-disgust lift us to moving images in the upper room.

Here, the sexual self finds a safe shelter where to experience optimistic departures from reality. Queer existence breathes through the images punctuated between Love and Arbeid. Art is a matter of caring and working; it resides in the soft images of touching oneself and others.

Art, as queerness, takes the shape of scales, to protect ourselves, and yet it mingles the idea of pleasure and performance. A continuum conflict between self-pleasure and collective-desires, that here becomes a conversation. Just as sex toys vibrating in unison, each devoted to oneself pleasure, but altogether they establish our identity’s manifesto.

Queerness is not yet here. The otherwise will always be next, and we will strive to conquer it. In the meantime, we celebrate every glimpse of love, compassion, and struggle that reminds us of the everyday gestures that allow us to exist. Desiring queerness leads us to what is not yet there, and yet it is anticipated in this very room, between promises and lust, carnality and fear.

Group art exhibition with:

Du Yan
Lakaaysha Van Ewijk
Lara Popp
Carlos Ledesma & Natascha Voliakovsky
Kira Mäder
Nika Timashkova
Jan-Peter Horstmann
Alyssa Wood
Hyping Sextoys
Screens*Scream*Sex Collective
Nicolle Bussien