Events

QUEER THREADS

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MAY 12, 2023 – AUGUST 20
San José Museum of Quilts & Textiles: Turner, Gilliland, Finlayson and Porcella Galleries

Curated by JOHN CHAICH

CURATOR’S STATEMENT

Queer Threads is a traveling group exhibition and coffee-table book exploring contemporary lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer experiences through fiber and textile traditions. This latest iteration spotlights 35 artists with roots in the American West, Northwest, and Southwest, as well as work from the museum’s collection. From the impeccably finished to the intentionally raw, many works are fully executed through thread-based processes such as crochet, embroidery, quilting, and weaving, while others interact with animation, clay, light, metal, and photography. Each artist’s use of material choices and technical finishes suggest poetic and subversive intentions.

Dating from 1972 to 2023, the works assembled position queerness within the history of domestic crafts and fiber arts while responding to their inherent gender connotations, feminist herstories, cross-cultural intersections, and tactile experiences. Themes of history and futurity, intimacy and topography, physicality and spirituality, vulnerability and security, labor and leisure, as well as individuality and community, emerge across the four galleries. Here, queerness serves as a point of both connection and tension.

Although all of the featured artists are LGBTQ-identified or allies, not all of the content explicitly is—and that’s perfectly queer in this context. By breaking through binaries of art and craft, male and female, gay and straight and beyond, the exhibition embraces differences and encourages experimental approaches to hand and machine textile practices.

Curated by John Chaich with the support of Ryan Patrick and Anke Larsen-Yskapm. Image credits, left to right: Maria E. Pineres, Human Nature, 2018, courtesy of the artist and Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles; Dani Lopez, Tryin’ to hold it together, 2020, courtesy of the artist; Alexander Hernandez, Hide and Seek (detail), 2021, courtesy of the artist.

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ARTISTI

AIDS Memorial Quilt, Indira Allegra, April Bey, Diedrick Brackens, Craig Calderwood, Chiachio Giannone, Gregory Climer, Lola Corona, Ben Cuevas, Rakeem Cunningham, TJ Dedeaux-Norris, Jovencio de la Paz, Erika Diamond, Ricki Dwyer, Andrés Payan Estrada , James Gobel, Harmony Hammond, Angela Hennessy, Alexander Hernandez, Kang Seung Lee, Aubrey Longley-Cook, Dani Lopez, Richard Johnathan Nelson, Jasmine Nyende, Ramekon O’Arwisters, Joel Otterson, Maria E. Pineres, Robb Putnam, RoCoCo Projects , Erik Scollon, Sunny Smith, Molly Vaughan, Nathan Vincent, Angie Wilson, Mikki Yamishiro.

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Eventi

QUEER THREADS

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]12 MAGGIO 2023 – 20 AGOSTO 2023
San José Museum of Quilts & Textiles: Turner, Gilliland, Finlayson and Porcella Galleries

A cura di: JOHN CHAICH

DICHIARAZIONE DEL CURATORE

Queer Threads è una mostra collettiva itinerante che esplora le esperienze lesbiche, gay, bisessuali, transgender e queer contemporanee attraverso le fibre e le tradizioni tessili. Quest’ultima edizione mette in luce 35 artisti con radici nell’Ovest, nel Nord-Ovest e nel Sud-Ovest americano, oltre a opere della collezione del museo. Da quelle impeccabilmente rifinite a quelle intenzionalmente grezze, molte opere sono completamente realizzate attraverso processi basati su fili come l’uncinetto, il ricamo, il quilting e la tessitura, mentre altre interagiscono con l’animazione, l’argilla, la luce, il metallo e la fotografia. L’uso che ogni artista fa dei materiali e delle finiture tecniche suggerisce intenzioni poetiche e sovversive.

Le opere raccolte, che vanno dal 1972 al 2023, collocano la queerness all’interno della storia dell’artigianato domestico e delle fiber arts, rispondendo alle loro intrinseche connotazioni di genere, alle storie femministe, alle intersezioni interculturali e alle esperienze tattili. I temi della storia e del futuro, dell’intimità e della topografia, della fisicità e della spiritualità, della vulnerabilità e della sicurezza, del lavoro e del tempo libero, nonché dell’individualità e della comunità, emergono nelle quattro gallerie. Qui la queerness funge da punto di connessione e di tensione.

Sebbene tutti gli artisti presenti siano identificati come LGBTQ o affini, non tutti i contenuti lo sono esplicitamente, il che è perfettamente queer in questo contesto. Rompendo i binari di arte e artigianato, maschile e femminile, gay ed etero e oltre, la mostra abbraccia le differenze e incoraggia approcci sperimentali alle pratiche tessili a mano e a macchina.

Curata da John Chaich con il supporto di Ryan Patrick e Anke Larsen-Yskapm. Crediti immagine, da sinistra a destra: Maria E. Pineres, Human Nature, 2018, per gentile concessione dell’artista e della Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles; Dani Lopez, Tryin’ to hold it together, 2020, per gentile concessione dell’artista; Alexander Hernandez, Hide and Seek (dettaglio), 2021, per gentile concessione dell’artista.

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ARTISTI

AIDS Memorial Quilt, Indira Allegra, April Bey, Diedrick Brackens, Craig Calderwood, Chiachio Giannone, Gregory Climer, Lola Corona, Ben Cuevas, Rakeem Cunningham, TJ Dedeaux-Norris, Jovencio de la Paz, Erika Diamond, Ricki Dwyer, Andrés Payan Estrada , James Gobel, Harmony Hammond, Angela Hennessy, Alexander Hernandez, Kang Seung Lee, Aubrey Longley-Cook, Dani Lopez, Richard Johnathan Nelson, Jasmine Nyende, Ramekon O’Arwisters, Joel Otterson, Maria E. Pineres, Robb Putnam, RoCoCo Projects , Erik Scollon, Sunny Smith, Molly Vaughan, Nathan Vincent, Angie Wilson, Mikki Yamishiro.

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