This solo exhibition was the culmination of a yearlong conceptual and material engagement in painting, printmaking, drawing, and video. Exploring the ornamentality of queerness across vernacular Buddhism, the series center the snake (and snake-human hybrid) as an avatar and astral body for various states of being: queer melancholia, (dis)embodied pleasures and pains, and transcendence across boundaries, planes, and borders.
06.01.2022–07.09.2022
Distillery Gallery
South Boston, MA
South Boston, MA
Organizers:
Shane Levi
Savanna Nelson
Shane Levi
Savanna Nelson
Artwork
Exhibition documentation
Installation view, រង់ចាំចូលនិព្វាន Waiting for Enlightenment, Distillery Gallery, Boston, June 1 – July 9, 2022. Photo by Mel Taing. © Sopheak Sam