Fugue, 2024 - ongoing
Single-channel photo-roman, 10:46
Developed in collaboration with Ali Newhard, Fugue is an ongoing photographic and moving image project examining how cinematic images shape queer identity, desire, and historical memory. Working with staged photographs made on Kodak Ektachrome slide film, each chapter enters into dialogue with a different film or visual language from the New Queer Cinema movement, treating reenactment not as reproduction but as a method of historical inquiry and image-making.
Produced across Utah, Montana, Colorado, New York, and Rhode Island, the project explores how cinematic images continue to circulate long after their original historical moment, accumulating new meanings as they are repeated, displaced, and performed. Rather than reconstructing specific scenes, Fugue inhabits the visual language of queer cinema to ask how images become sites of identification, inheritance, and collective memory.
The project unfolds across photography, moving image, installation, and publication. Each chapter centers on a distinct thematic register, including alienation, romance, and rage, while remaining part of a larger investigation into how queer histories are constructed, remembered, and continually rewritten through images.
Selected Exhibitions
Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 2024
Day, Brant Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA, 2025
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (forthcoming), 2027–2028
Selected Press
Mark Feeney, “Practicing What They Teach: Faculty Work on Display at the Photographic Resource Center”, The Boston Globe
Support
2024 SMFA Traveling Fellows Grant