12 ATTEMPTS
[TO COLLAPSE
MY INFINITY]
SET ME FREEEE
SAID THE CAMERA OR WHATEVER
WAS INSIDE
IT POINTED AS IT WAS
AT THE SHUTTER OR BACKDROP OR
BLANK.
21-24 MARCH | PV 21 MARCH 6-9PM
WOLF MAD MAD | A.P.T. GALLERY, LONDON
12 attempts to collapse my infinity immerses viewers within a self-portrait studio shoot of the artist. Depicted across a series of twelve black&white photographic prints and a self-tape playing on a hybrid digital 'box camera', the work engages viewers in various acts of looking to question where exactly visibility resides, particularly in photographic representations of queer and trans bodies.
INDEXTHUMB PRESENTS
*CLICK*
TWELVE TIMES IT WAS THIS
ROTATED ROUND ITS AXIS EACH TIME
THE INVISIBLE UNIVERSE SUCKED
OUT BY A CRUSHED RUBBER BALL BREATHING
OPEN THE SKY LIKE A BIRTHDAY GORL.
*SET ME FREE*
AND THE BLOWER
A NUDE (PRETTY)
CONTORTED IN HOPE
WAS FIXED, LATER TO LIE
SHED ON THE FLOOR IN GLOSSY PULP
AMONGST LACE AND CROPS
AND OTHER SUCH SUGGESTIONS.
Single channel video, 9:16, black & white, 12 rc photographic prints, stereo audio.