Objectifying a Queer Body Thinking Through Materiality
22 februari–2 mars 2025
Objectifying a Queer Body Thinking Through Materiality is a research project that originates from my personal experience as a queer body and which expands into thinking about queerness in contemporary western society. I have opened up a dialogue with molds, materials and processes to think metaphorically about the intrinsic relation between bodies and objects.
What if I understand objects as bodies and bodies as objects? Would I find the same values we use to (re)produce objects in contemporary society as we do to (re)produce bodies? Could molds then be understood as the gender norms—the status quo—through which we (re)produce fixed body-objects and identities?
Molds are often perceived as static; they don’t allow change, as they are meant to replicate the same shape over and over, unlike a hammer, a tool with which you can make many different things. I take on molds less as tools but as subjects themselves and collaborators with whom to speculate and reflect with.
Daniel Ramos Obregón is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, drag performer, and educator from Bogotá, Colombia. He graduated from the BA Design from Universidad de los Andes in 2011, the MA Fashion Artefact from the London College of Fashion in 2014, and Research Lab Craft from Konstfack in 2024.
His works often inquire about notions of human existence, specifically in contemporary society, such as the construction of the self in terms of identity, gender, and race, and the relation between mind and body, the spiritual and the material. His practice is rooted in thinking through making—in a wide range of media such as jewellery, ceramics, and leather—to create highly narrative objects and wearable art. His works have been exhibited at international events such as Munich Jewellery Week, the Latinamerican Contemporary Jewellery Biennial, the Lisbon Jewellery Biennial, and the Venice Design Biennale, as well as in museums and galleries like Liljevalchs Konsthall, De Kerk–Museum Arnhem, the Buenos Aires National Museum for Decorative Arts, Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein, among others.
Opening with Artist present on Sunday 23rd from 13:00–17:00
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