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Public Functionary 9/7-9/28 2024
Beginning at disorientation, displacement, discomfort, distance, even disenchantment… I ask how the intimacy of a compassionate scrutiny—even when it is not elegant—can lead us to deepening truths. Giving shape to this question, the exhibition seeks to think with you about the worlds we commit to. Each of these artists knows a specific mode of negotiating their existence, and here I envision abandoning proof so we may point towards that far away possibility of joyful ongoing negotiation between all of our relationships, a process of learning how to connect our shapes and create impressions on each others surfaces, how we push each other to adapt and take shared forms in exercises of a sovereignty that is relational.
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MnArtists - Shape is a Promise: on YOU SAY YOU LOVE ME AND I COMMIT TO FRICTION
Walker Art Center 6/26/2025
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REP for MN, 2024
A series of four gatherings co-organized by local community leaders and REP for MN, the Trans Survival Community Meetings offered an abolitionist space open to all trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people to cultivate collective power through facilitated conversation on power, mutual aid, grief, action, and liberation. With voice workshops, trans admin support, ritual practices, and group discussion, we connected local communities to resources, sending them home with groceries and other material needs met.
Public Functionary 7/25-8/18 2024
Blackness in Transit: BGBM (Black Girl to Black Man), an ongoing photography project initiated in 2020, traces living in multiplicity, through the past, present and future.
The images are a claim to the agency to move with this multiplicity. In a society that denies the femininity of Black girls, there is a double resistance in claiming a Black girlhood, while asserting the ability, rooted in truth, and the will to grow into and create Black trans masculinity.
Through an invitation to be photographed in sites of significance from childhood, Bearboi creates space for an homage to the unique experiences of girlhood from the perspective of Black transgender men and masculine people. In this portrait series, memories and sites from the past are layered with images that simultaneously show navigation of the world as assumed cisgender men.
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PUBLIC FUNCTIONARY: BLACKNESS IN TRANSIT
ITStopia 2023
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