This exhibition explores the fluid, fragmented, and resistant experience of time within queer contexts, featuring seven artistic positions that question normative temporal structures. It delves into how LGBTIQA+ communities experience time differently through concepts like coming-outs, transitions, and untold histories.
The exhibition _Gaps, Leaps, Fractures – Queer Temporalities_ brings together seven artistic positions that engage with the fluid, fragmented, and resistant experience of time in queer contexts. It questions normative structures and explores non-linear, cyclical, or alternative concepts of time, recognizing that the lives of LGBTIQA+ communities are often experienced and narrated differently. The exhibition posits that queer temporalities can manifest as performative gestures, visual archives, or poetic interventions, utilizing diverse artistic media like video, installation, VR, photography, drawings, screen printing, and text.
These works focus on memory practices, transgenerational narratives, and utopian models of time, questioning the legibility of history from a queer perspective. They employ overwritings, ruptures, and appropriations to demonstrate that queer time moves rather than passes, existing in gaps, between moments, and in resistant leaps. Through deceleration and slowness, the exhibition critiques capitalist time logic and fosters new possibilities for temporal awareness, opening spaces for alternative narratives about queer life and love, and exploring moments of change and community. Parts of the exhibition are designed to be dynamic, with individual works evolving over its duration, prompting a reflection on how time feels for queer individuals.
