Stand In
Brody Weaver and Brit Moore-ShirleyPoster, 11” x 17”
2020
An unlimited stack of prints composed of photographs of objects chosen by the two collaborators in a representation of queer kinship structures within and againist familial traumas.
Text reads: The above objects stand-in for two people: a friendship, a partnership, a relationship. A temporary collection of intimacy. An archive of feelings. Ten objects from me, ten objects from you, chosen by one another. Home is where you extend your body into space: a practise of becoming intimate with where one is. A place you saturate with bodily matter. Inhabitance is a sort of orientation: creating new spaces, new folds, and new configurations. The normative is created through repetitive acts of bodily actions overtime. To become oriented, or, to find your way, is to make the strange familiar: to find your way through and sometimes around. Of course, we arrive at new orientations due to previous ones disorienting us: where we might have felt out of place.
Text reads: The above objects stand-in for two people: a friendship, a partnership, a relationship. A temporary collection of intimacy. An archive of feelings. Ten objects from me, ten objects from you, chosen by one another. Home is where you extend your body into space: a practise of becoming intimate with where one is. A place you saturate with bodily matter. Inhabitance is a sort of orientation: creating new spaces, new folds, and new configurations. The normative is created through repetitive acts of bodily actions overtime. To become oriented, or, to find your way, is to make the strange familiar: to find your way through and sometimes around. Of course, we arrive at new orientations due to previous ones disorienting us: where we might have felt out of place.