The Queer Feeling Of Tomorrow
Art Gallery Of Guelph
From September 17 - December 13, 2015
Curated by Adam Barbu, Winner of the Middlebrook Prize Award.
The Queer Feeling of Tomorrow explores themes of doubt, resilience, and political agency through the work of six contemporary artists: Sunil Gupta (London UK), John Hanning (Brooklyn NY), Shan Kelley (Montreal), Julia Martin (Ottawa), David Poolman (Toronto) and Laurel Woodcock (Toronto).
The Queer Feeling of Tomorrow suggests the playful uncertainty of our personal and political futures in a supposedly “post AIDS” historical moment. The exhibition expresses a double play of optimism and irony, tracing a spirit of life affirmation that is at the same time a form of restless doubt. It also presents a shift in art practice away from the demonstrative and the spectacular, in effort to locate the complex and oftentimes inexplicable excesses of identity and community within the everyday.
