SOFT EDGES
Aphir, Carla Zimbler, DANDROGYNY and George Goodnow
PLATFORM ARTS, GEELONG
25/05/2021 - 23/06/2021
Curated By Amber Smith and George Goodnow
SOFT EDGES is a multimodal exhibition that reimagines road signs and streetscapes. It explores how objects that assert order and authority can be made tender, and transformed to tell different narratives from queer and femme perspectives. Rigid structures are softened, directions are complicated, frequencies are bent, and notions of friendship, gender and orientation are explored.
The exhibition combines the work of George Goodnow, Carla Zimbler, Aphir and DANDROGYNY, working across sculpture, video, sound and performance. They come together in a hi-vis, audio visual installation which promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and the importance of making space for nuance, emotion, cooperation and the uncomfortable.
“In our everyday life, edges present themselves in the semiotics and linguistic systems of our urban environments – road signs, construction signs, safety signs – wayfinding and placemaking devices that shape our moral and social obligations. But how do these systems affect and (re) contextualise how we experience and perceive our own day-to-day lives?
In Soft Edges we witness the bending of these enforced boundaries, and we experience how our bodies adapt and respond to spatial and sensory elements in real time. We start to understand and unravel our deeply rooted ideas around how we design our spaces, and how we occupy and intergrate them. George Goodnow, Carla Zimbler, Aphir and DANDROGYNY create spatial experiences and sculptures that reimagine the limits of volume, capacity, material, and test the endurance of their embedded legacies. They rethink and subvert how objects, architecture and everyday aesthetics can be harnessed by peripheral identities – designing spaces for queer bodies that hold them softly and safely.” Amber Smith – Curator
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