Fugue, 2024 - ongoing
Single-channel photo-roman, 10:46
Fugue is a single-channel photo-roman work shown on a slide projector. The images featured were taken using 35mm Kodak Ektachrome color slide film and made across Utah, Montana, Colorado, New York, and Rhode Island. The slides reenact, reference, and fabulate images from the new queer cinema movement of the nineteen-nineties (My Own Private Idaho, Happy Together, Mulholland Drive, and High Art). Through Fugue, I imagine new narratives in the cracks and slippages around these reproductions. The work explores a post-colonial, queer, and feminist relationship to tropes of "the West," and "Manifest Destiny.”
This work continues as a four-part series examining the images and resonance of the New Queer Cinema Movement.
Exhibitions/Grants 2024/2025:
-200th Anniversary Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Artists' Movie Night, Enrique Mendia, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 2024
-Day, Brant Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA, 2025
-Traveling Fellows Grant, School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA, 2025