Emma Prior
Emma Prior, Out of the Closet and into the Archive, 2022, installation views
Out of the Closet and into the Archive
curated by Emma Prior
in partial fulfilment of a Master of Arts in Contemporary Curatorial Practice
17 - 21 January 2022
Out of the Closet and Into the Archive aims to provide visibility to non-historical queer bodies through collaborative archival practices. Queer bodies are offered a platform to document their own histories and the histories of their communities in a way that is inherently collaborative. The archive documents the banal and mundane moments as told by the community - the moments that define queerness in everyday life. The project calls into question conceptualisations of what is considered archive-able, while demonstrating the transformations that may occur when communities represented in the archives are prioritized.
Photography by Reshma Chhiba