hot dreams - Opening Reception

hot dreams brings together the work of Ardyn Gibbs and Eli Nolet, two emerging trans and non binary artists exploring queer affect through new media and materiality. Queer desire, safety, memory, joy, and visibility exist as throughlines in these works that reach for physical spaces of queer belonging/gathering that have for some only existed as a fantasy or imagining. Employing both physical and digital material references to objects such as chains, metal piercings, and the reflective sheen reminiscent of that cast by leather or latex, the works in hot dreams refer to the queer body – or rather the absence of queer bodies.