'DISSONANT LINES' AS PART OF 'PRIDE IS AN ABSTRACTION' CURATED BY MICHAEL PETRY, CLIFFORD CHANCE, LONDON

 

Pride is an Abstraction curator Michael Petry on the opening night at Clifford Chance (patched together from my memory and notes): 

‘Normally when you say ‘Pride exhibition’ a lot of things come into mind but normally that’s figurative which is fine but I really wanted to focus on artists within our community who are making abstract work. Not something you would normally see in a Pride show. When you are a kid, you start off being an abstract artist. Children draw in a very abstract way. Then someone slapped your hand and says ‘NO you make a flower this THIS … this is how you should make art’ Starting out with colour and form which everyone does naturally you are told to be something else. And within the art world there is a whole new line of thought about queer  abstraction’

Speaking about my film ‘Dissonant Lines’ on show

‘I believe Lee had groups of people make the drawings together and they had one pen, and they had to hold onto the pen at the same time altogether and make the drawings, very abstract and very conceptual which Lee has then made into a very layered and complex video with no sound or music. Very beautiful. Lee has had quite a bit of success with this - it’s been in quite a few international film festivals.’ #abstraction #queerabstraction #contemporarypainting #prideisanabstraction