Eyelevel, in partnership with The Khyber Centre for the Arts, is proud to announce SEEKING SANCUTARY, a collaborative exhibition led by Mo Phùng and Mo Glitch.
Layering portraiture, drawing, and imaginations of trans sanctuary; archive, redaction, exposure, and protection will guide the creative process. Attentive to the patterns of consumption and exploitation of trans experience, SEEKING SANCUTARY centers the subjects in the work while also sharing our wild and beautiful collective existence.
HOURS: 12:00pm-5:00pm Tuesday to Saturday
LOCATION: The Khyber Centre for the Arts, 1880 Hollis Street, Halifax, NS. You can take a look at access notes from the Khyber Centre for the arts here.
PROJECT INFORMATION
The Mo's have been in creative collaboration since 2019 - merging portrait photography, drawings, and desires to reimagine new worlds through stories and connections with a collective of trans and gender expansive community artists to make SEEING SANCTUARY.
Trans and gender expansive bodies are in various states of stress and hypervigilance all of the time. Many of us are working to prove our existences and explain our realities. Dealing with questions, confusion, and sometimes outright revulsion is exhausting and disheartening. This is a project that seeks sanctuary. It is a meandering and precise quest for trans futures of abundance, rest, and delight.
A series of drawn photo portraits were created by the artists in collaboration with their subjects. The work is attentive to the patterns of consumption and exploitation of trans bodies and experiences. SEEKING SANCUTARY centers the subjects' care and autonomy in the work, while also sharing the alchemy of our wild and beautiful existences.
SEEKING SANCUTARY is by Mo Phùng and Mo Glitch.
With Arielle Twist, Brody Weaver, Excel Garay, Calendula Sack, Jacquie Shaw, Carmel Farahbakhsh, and Bria Miller
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
Mo Phùng (they/them):
Mo Phùng is a portrait photographer, visual artist, and alchemist. Their personal and creative work processes extend into documentary portraiture, archival exploration, underwear realms and dreamscapes. They are currently working on projects connecting the intimacies of gender identities & (re)expressions and within the queer and trans existences of Asian diaspora.
Mo Glitch (they/them):
Glitch works as a visual and performance artist in Kjipuktuk. Their work is informed by Queer/trans studies of ecology, gender wildness, and critical phenomenology. With a background in facilitation and community organizing, Glitch is an emerging aritst who opens portals to surviving within the confines and crumbling of modernity.
OPENING RECEPTION INFORMATION
There will be two opening receptions for SEEKING SANCTUARY at 1880 Hollis Street (The Khyber). The opening reception on Monday July 3rd will be a closed space for trans and gender non-conforming community member. We encourage folks to pre-register by visiting this link. The second is open to the public and will take place on Tuesday July 4th.
