On Saturday, July 1 at 1PM, join guest curator Noor Bhangu for a curator-led tour of the summer group show Homorientalism. The exhibition brings together the work of nine artists turning to the visual repertoires of orientalism to excavate the mixing of gender, race, sexuality, and empire. Returning to archives and lost desires, this exhibition hopes to make sense of the residue of Western imperialism in queer lives and after-lives of the twenty-first century. Homorientalism features work by artists: Damien Ajavon, Aika Akhmetova, Hector Canonge, Jin-Yong Choi, Banyi Huang, Maya Jeffereis, Jongbum Kim, Zahra Pars, and Sa’dia Rehman.
Curator Bio:
Noor Bhangu is a curator and scholar, whose practice employs cross-cultural encounters to interrogate issues of diaspora and indigeneity in post- and settler-colonial contexts. Through curatorial intervention, she hopes to involve politics of history, memory and materiality to problematize dominant histories and strategies of presentation. Bhangu completed her BA in the History of Art and her MA in Cultural Studies: Curatorial Practices. Her curatorial practice includes projects: Not the Camera, But the Filing Cabinet (2018), womenofcolour@soagallery (2018), Digitalia (2019-2020), Ornament and Crime (2022), and the excess is ritual (2023). In 2018, she began her PhD in Communication and Culture. Noor is currently based in Oslo, Norway.
Image: Banyi Huang, ReMazu: Iterations of Devotion (video still), 2023. Single-Channel Video, 3D printed sculptures on motorized turntable, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.