redux
Firstdraft
6 December 2024 - 19 January 2025
13-17 Riley St, Woolloomooloo, NSW 2011
delphic was developed in partnership with Metro Arts and Firstdraft.
6 December 2024 - 19 January 2025
13-17 Riley St, Woolloomooloo, NSW 2011
delphic was developed in partnership with Metro Arts and Firstdraft.
This exhibition revisited selected works from Danish Quapoor’s recent good grief series, recontextualising them amongst related works. Quapoor’s trademark illustrative paintings on stretched paper feature alongside wall drawings and sculptures. Collectively, the works allude to diverse concepts including shifting personal identities, familial relationships, corporeality, grief, memorialisation, frustration, allergies, expectations, gender roles and sexuality.
Most of the works were initially inspired by grief and memory–the grief ignited by the artist’s father’s unexpected death in 2020, and the memories reignited in the wake of that loss. For Quapoor, this was also intertwined with varied experiences of coming out to his immediate family members as bisexual. Quapoor has creatively defragmented and processed those traumas, acknowledging that while personal, they unfortunately don’t exist in isolation, particularly in heteronormative regional Australia. While these themes and tensions permeate the exhibition, Quapoor also tempers, abstracts and obfuscates the personal to embed life-affirming levity and humour within.
Gallery webpage | Roomsheet
Most of the works were initially inspired by grief and memory–the grief ignited by the artist’s father’s unexpected death in 2020, and the memories reignited in the wake of that loss. For Quapoor, this was also intertwined with varied experiences of coming out to his immediate family members as bisexual. Quapoor has creatively defragmented and processed those traumas, acknowledging that while personal, they unfortunately don’t exist in isolation, particularly in heteronormative regional Australia. While these themes and tensions permeate the exhibition, Quapoor also tempers, abstracts and obfuscates the personal to embed life-affirming levity and humour within.
Gallery webpage | Roomsheet
Panorama photographs above and at very bottom: Danish Quapoor.
Exhibition photographs below: Jessica Maurer, courtesy Firstdraft.
Exhibition photographs below: Jessica Maurer, courtesy Firstdraft.
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