(re)tracing

Anna Leonowens Gallery
Oct 29 – Nov 2, 2019

Brit Moore-Shirley and Brody Weaver

“So, here we are, tracing. We are tracing different things, but the same things. We are tracing things together, and separately. We are drawing contours, replicas, transcriptions, identities. A club. A sauna. A photograph of a family member, a photograph from a family member’s home. A celebrities coming out letter. An obituary. An icon. We are drawn to the word tracing because it im- plies a contemporary subject coming to know, recreate, or citationally engage with a historical object, but an object is never just an object. Within this work and writing, we are tracing a queer subjectivity. We are tracing our queer subjectivities, within their overlaps, points of departure, influences, and affects. This work comes from subjects within the world, making art to speak about that world; there is little distance here.”
– Exhibition catalouge