Seema R / Artlust

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Art and not much lust

Blue and white bowl with an image of the sun
A screen showing library loan periods
Cute black lab
Painting of young woman with a young cat
Baroque painting of a woman wearing red seated in a chair holding fan
Women in black standing in front of green velvet
Painting of a woman seated beside a mirror in white skirt and red shawl
Handkerchief with a martini on it
Black and white evening dress from the 1960s
Candleholder shaped like a woman
Wood sculpture of Mary and Jesus
Joshua Serafin is a multidisciplinary artist born in Bacolod, Philippines. The lull summoned in VOID (2022–ongoing) is not emptiness but an interval premised on the possible, fulfilled through a nonbinary godhead imagining a newfangled world and ushering it into being by creating themself through gesture, expressivity, and movement. VOID’s tropical futurist vision of the brown body in primordial space breaches imperial patriarchy’s notions of not only power and beauty but also of existence and experience itself. Drawn from myths recounting the creation of the Philippine archipelago through queer + trans performance, VOID envisions a future that conjures embodiments of a nonbinary species of the gender-diverse realm. This vision is prefigured by a nonbinary god who dances their way into an ever-changing space. On the cusp of erasure and écriture, Serafin presents an allegory of absence to propose resonances of a certain re-presence. The void is that generative moment where being is transfigured as élan vital of the becoming-open, a paradox only willingly embraced by the queerly post-human yet also humanly trans-divine.
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