Fantastical Scenes: Queering the Collection
August 16 @ 6:00 pm - September 22 @ 4:00 pm
Queer lives and artistic practices are inextricably linked in Australia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. As this exhibition demonstrates, the collections held at NERAM are ripe with such queer stories and potentials. The words queer and queering are far from neutral. This exhibition seeks to counter ideas of queer as a category, label or a fixed or knowable identity. Instead, the collection of artworks in Fantastical Scenes explores queering as a way of being, discovering, re-interpreting, resisting and making.
Curated by Dr Ariella Van Luyn
Read the Fantastical Scenes: Queering the Collection exhibition essay
Opening night: Friday 16 August, 6-8pm
Image credit: Henri Van Noordenburg, Composition XXXV, 2015, hand-carved inkjet print. Gift of the Artist, 2020. NERAM Collection.
Part of the Winter Blooming Festival
