Yves Wilder
Yves Wilder
running out of space
Yes and no — right and left — up and down — on and off; navigating social spaces requires an unconscious understanding of the binary. But what of the spaces that exist outside of on and off? Between yes and no? running out of space incorporates graphic tape, an ad hoc wayfinding solution used en masse during the 2020 pandemic to challenge constructed binaries. The unconcealed circles and squares are placed as firmly as this social structure — a square on top, a circle on the bottom — but the triangle asks ‘what about in between? Can it be both? Do we have a third choice?’ The project incorporates quotes from queer magazine and newsletter archives that suggest these structures might limit gender, love, and identity. Formally minimal and conceptually maximal, the work practices what Jack Halberstam calls “queer art’s ‘ways of undoing’” - openly willing to lack clarity and fail in order to counter complicity.
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