Jul 19th 2024
Sparks in a Dark Room: Closing Reception
@ Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Friday, July 19th, from 7PM - 9PM
Join us for a closing reception of Sparks in a Darkroom: Exchange, Pleasure and Play by Gabriel Martinez. The artist and curator Heather Raquel Phillips will present for one last night.
Gabriel Martinez transforms the photographic darkroom into a nightclub, a Queer church, a laser-lit dance floor dungeon that invites alchemy & the unexpected, exposing mystical evidence onto silver gelatin works. Searching and revealing various aspects of Queer dualities – trauma/futurity, sorrow/ecstasy, positive/negative, macro/micro, corporeal/celestial, destruction/regeneration – Martinez reimagines archival material into unexpected potentials.
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