MOTEL PAPA.
Papa, Nicolas.
2018
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I've become really invested in the idea of prepared spaces, both visible and invisible ones, as a way of talking about how outdated or flawed some of the standards we uphold are. We have motel rooms and gallery spaces that were designed in the 1950s and 1960s and have stayed that way since. We have archetypes of femininity and masculinity and sexuality from the same era that we still endorse cultu... read morerally. We navigate a lot through systems of assumptions. I like to point to the love/hate relationships we can have with prepared spaces, and to present the feeling of a system not working for us, our work, our expression of ourselves, and our love, now.
Keywords: queer, gender expression, sixties, vintage motel, painting, installation, music, portraiture, portraits, figure painting, chromatic, aberration, songs, identity, love, sexuality, outdated failing systems.read less - ID:
- nv935d419
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- tufts:sd.0000741
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