2019 Festival ←

Christopher Lacroix Perversions come in all sizes

Georgia Scherman Projects
Christopher Lacroix, Head forward, strong core, pedal backwards, 2019. From the suite “One set to failure.” Archival inkjet print, 44 x 59″
Christopher Lacroix, Head forward, strong core, pedal backwards, 2019. From the suite “One set to failure.” Archival inkjet print, 44 x 59″
Christopher Lacroix, There are reasons for needing to remain bound #2 and #7, 2017. Vinyl print, 80 x 32″.
Christopher Lacroix, There are reasons for needing to remain bound #2 and #7, 2017. Vinyl print, 80 x 32″.
Christopher Lacroix, Sometimes it’s hard to tell where it’s coming from, 2017. Vinyl print, 141 x 161″.
Christopher Lacroix, Sometimes it’s hard to tell where it’s coming from, 2017. Vinyl print, 141 x 161″.
Christopher Lacroix , Sometimes it’s hard to tell where it’s coming from, 2017. Two channel video still.
Christopher Lacroix , Sometimes it’s hard to tell where it’s coming from, 2017. Two channel video still.

With Perversions come in all sizes, Christopher Lacroix continues his interrogation of the relentless effort of queer existence, one that both aspires to and rejects a normative system that makes deviant ways of being inadequate. This paradox of simultaneous aspiration and resistance is embodied in Lacroix’s unnerving performances, which maintain an uncomfortable balance between tragedy and melodrama. Rather than reproducing the pain that the normative system inflicts on others, his performances redirect the pain onto himself—his identity and his body. What results is a campy and queer masochism that explores abject self-deprecation as a means of self-preservation and resistance.

Curated by Vanessa Runions

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