In just two weeks! Saturday, December 14, 7-10pm, indulge in trash opulence at Olly Olly for the opening of 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲. 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗵. 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲. 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆. curated by Joseph McCloskey & featuring artists Joseph McCloskey, Imogen Thomas, Natalie Slater, Gabriela Mary, Lilian Merrill & Vica G.H. 💫💋🐰💋💫 In 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲. 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗵. 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲. 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆. artists respond to commodity culture with an assertion that alchemy resides only in our changed perspective: Objects discarded by the masses and salvaged from oblivion are imbued with opulence as their trash essence is embraced by the artists. Through photography, ephemera from the group’s past events, and objects of their own individual practices, the artists simultaneously celebrate, parody and critique the arbitrariness of value. Rituals exalted by the many are bent to the will of those with enough imagination to wage camp against the mundane and use caricature to exploit the social drive for attunement.
𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲. 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗵. 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲. 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆. serves as a playfully curious and discovery-based exploration of absurd elements of value and social rituals as pleasurable transformation. Most of the artists in 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲. 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗵. 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲. 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆. identify as queer, and this exhibition also arises from and showcases the freedom, power, and safety that can be found in queer friendship.
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