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The Beautiful Ones (2022)

Documental photography, varying dimensions, editions. 2019-2022. This is a photographic diptych (and a expanding selection of smaller individual works) documenting a book of Polaroids by Tom Bianchi that got irrevocably damaged when my previous studio was flooded after a burst pipe. The original publication, Fire Island Pines: Polaroids, 1975-1983 is an elegiac depiction of gilded gay lives, until being decimated by the Aids epidemic. I myself spent time at this idyllic beach community, when I lived in New York between 2003 and 2007 and was conflicted about it. As a mirror of “our” society, there were sadnesses lurking behind the blissed-out euphoria. The book was a gift to a person who I envisaged being in my life forever. Neither the relationship nor the book survived, but somehow in its new state, it suggests the circularity of life and community, and the hope of reclaiming what gets lost somehow. The visual disruption perhaps further offers a possible re-examining of our gender biases.

A selection of works shown for the solo exhibition, The Beautiful Ones (curated by Artnom, at Omnu, Belém, Portugal: 2022)

Gallery (a selection)

25 de abril 2020

From the solo exhibition: A felicidade mora aqui, a felicidade morre aqui. (Biblioteca de Camões, Lisbon: 2021)

Artist’s photograph, blown up to 1m x 1m. Artist’s text.

This building was sold to a German investment fund in 2019, por 28 million Euros, and its tenants were evicted. The artist has written a text about our notion of place, the psychological earth, capitalism and COVID, and the history of a neighbourhood in transition.

Male Patterns (2021)

Is (2024)

Photographic print, handwritten text, ink, collage. Appropriation of Robert Bishop by Clifford Coffin, 1954. 29.7cm x 21 cm.

Americanas (2020)

Mia in Metaxourgeio, Athens/Delphi. 2022.

A photography project that culminated in the film collaboration Therapythia, in the course of my residency at Siilk Gallery, Athens (December 2021-January 2022). https://siilkgallery.com/artists/colin-ginks/