12 attempts to collapse my infinity (2024)
rc prints, lace gloves, single-channel digital video on custom camera monitor, b&w, sound on speakers. 21m looped.
Set me freeee
said the camera or whatever
was inside
it pointed as it was
at the shutter or backdrop or
blank.
*click*
twelve times it was this
rotated round its axis each time
the invisible universe sucked
out by a crushed rubber ball breathing
open the sky like a birthday gorl.
*set me free*
and the blower
a nude (pretty)
contorted in hope
was fixed, later to lie
shed on the floor in glossy pulp
amongst lace and crops
and other such suggestions.
*click*
12 attempts to collapse my infinity immerses viewers within a self-portrait studio shoot of the artist. Depicted across a series of twelve black&white photographic prints and a self-tape playing on a hybrid digital box camera, the work engages viewers in various acts of looking to question where exactly visibility resides, particularly in photographic representations of queer and trans bodies.
indexthumb is a moving image artist and performer tuning queer forms of seeing. Combining multi-channel video, contemporary movement, transpersonal psychology, and mise-en-scène, they create multimedia installations that investigate queer and trans* psyches and their embodied translations and (in)visibilities. Currently, their work is focused on masculine performance and its power to obscure alternative identities, as well as creating space for transformative readings of the AMAB body to emerge. They have displayed work internationally at film festivals, including Austin, Leeds, and Atlanta Underground, from their former life as a narrative film director. They hold a B.A. in Film and Media Studies from Stanford University.
@indexthumb
indexthumb.com
rc prints, lace gloves, single-channel digital video on custom camera monitor, b&w, sound on speakers. 21m looped.
Set me freeee
said the camera or whatever
was inside
it pointed as it was
at the shutter or backdrop or
blank.
*click*
twelve times it was this
rotated round its axis each time
the invisible universe sucked
out by a crushed rubber ball breathing
open the sky like a birthday gorl.
*set me free*
and the blower
a nude (pretty)
contorted in hope
was fixed, later to lie
shed on the floor in glossy pulp
amongst lace and crops
and other such suggestions.
*click*
12 attempts to collapse my infinity immerses viewers within a self-portrait studio shoot of the artist. Depicted across a series of twelve black&white photographic prints and a self-tape playing on a hybrid digital box camera, the work engages viewers in various acts of looking to question where exactly visibility resides, particularly in photographic representations of queer and trans bodies.
indexthumb is a moving image artist and performer tuning queer forms of seeing. Combining multi-channel video, contemporary movement, transpersonal psychology, and mise-en-scène, they create multimedia installations that investigate queer and trans* psyches and their embodied translations and (in)visibilities. Currently, their work is focused on masculine performance and its power to obscure alternative identities, as well as creating space for transformative readings of the AMAB body to emerge. They have displayed work internationally at film festivals, including Austin, Leeds, and Atlanta Underground, from their former life as a narrative film director. They hold a B.A. in Film and Media Studies from Stanford University.
@indexthumb
indexthumb.com
Related exhibitions & events:
Group Exhibition: wolf MAD MAD, A.P.T Gallery 21-24 March 2024
Exhibition Talk, Sat 23-March at 2pm with the artists: indexthumb, Margot McEwen and Michèle Saint-Michel.
Postgraduate Degree Shows: Goldsmiths, University of London, 11-16 July 2024
Group Exhibition: wolf MAD MAD, A.P.T Gallery 21-24 March 2024
Exhibition Talk, Sat 23-March at 2pm with the artists: indexthumb, Margot McEwen and Michèle Saint-Michel.
Postgraduate Degree Shows: Goldsmiths, University of London, 11-16 July 2024