(UN)FIXED
Organized by SoMad
Curated by Jay Elizondo & Lorenzo Triburgo
Featuring work by:
Vincent Chong
Theo Trotter
Rachel Stern
Lorenzo Triburgo
Li Wang
Lassai
Kate Muehlemann-Cataldo
Gino Romero
Gabrielle Randall
Darian Deshawn Stewart
Jay Elizondo
Ash Hagerstrand
Aisha Tandiwe Bell
Peter Clough
(UN)FIXED brings together 12 artists selected by curators Jay Elizondo and Lorenzo Triburgo from an open call of 500 applicants. (UN)FIXED takes as its conceptual grounding the curators’ relationships to trans*queer embodiment and their belief in expansive ways of being. While Lorenzo recently ceased taking testosterone as a performative attempt to embody gender abolition, Jay began taking estrogen this year. Although one might be tempted to conceptualize their experiences in the framework of a simple dichotomy or as irreconcilable contradictions—trans masculine/trans feminine, testosterone/estrogen, or ceasing and beginning—they seek to challenge misconceptions of “fixedness” and use a trans/queer lens to draw connections between the ways each of the artists included in the exhibition complicate the seemingly dichotomous. In painting, photography, video, sculpture, performance, and installation, the artists in (UN)FIXED demonstrate an understanding of the ways holding multiple truths is necessary for life outside the margins.
(UN)FIXED Curators
UN(FIXED) Virtual Exhibition
The Brooklyn Rail - (UN)FIXED: Jay Elizondo and Lorenzo Triburgo
Jay Elizondo and Lorenzo Triburgo join Ksenia Soboleva for a conversation hosted by The Brooklyn Rail. Concluded with a poetry reading by mel elberg.
