(SUB)sonic
October 2022
Ophelia Bakowski, Majella and Indra Liusuari, exhibited at Monash Fine Art Gallery, Clayton
Curated by Teagan Ramsay
(SUB)sonic seeks to draw connections, create fragmentations and call attention to the influences of systems on bodily queer experience and memory. The exhibition embodies queer as an umbrella term for the Other, an Other that resists traditional categories, focuses on much more than “same-sex” desires and pushes beyond the question of identity itself. The artworks exhibited in (SUB)sonic fluctuate between discomfort and ethereal tranquillity, provoking affective experiences and recollections. By employing reclamation tactics, rebirth and satire; the works critique religious, social and racial institutional systems.(SUB)sonic highlights work that speaks to spatial, audio and visual architectures that converse with the audience’s senses to elicit deep bodily responses. The conversations between the artworks and the body investigate notions of power dynamics, Othering, and coercion. Through visually and sonically articulating queer methodologies and rituals; these practices cultivate forms of visibility that go beyond the optic and soak into normative structures to reframe them. (SUB)sonic draws on a spectrum of emotions to explore the relationship between the body, desire and environment, and questions the ingrained structures of social and religious institutions.
Listen: Majella, Blue Morpho, 2020. 6.34 min, sound collage.
Monash Fine Art Gallery. Photo by Teagan Ramsay.
Monash Fine Art Gallery. Photo by Teagan Ramsay.
Monash Fine Art Gallery. Photo by Teagan Ramsay.
Monash Fine Art Gallery. Photo by Teagan Ramsay.