Thursday, May 29, 2014

"Cabinet of Queeriosities" by Julius Poncelet Manapul, Toronto World Pride 2014. GLASS CLOCHE



Butterflies Templates Indigenous to the Philippines, 
and Cut from Digital Collage from Gay Porn Images.
Printed on Velum
Displayed in a Glass Cloche

The Cabinet of Queeriosities (2014) is a new body of work by Philippine-born, Toronto-based visual artist Julius Poncelet Manapul. Coinciding with WorldPride 2014 Toronto, this artistic intervention spans three spaces of first floor of Studio 386 (386 Ontario Street, just south-east of the Church Wellesley Village) and consists of installation, sculpture, video projection, digital art, and mixed media works which interrogate the artist’s experiences of racialized queerness in the age of globalization and diaspora. Using visual vocabularies culled from colonial and Indigenous cultures in the Philippines, abstracted gay pornography, and found everyday objects, Manapul constructs stunning hybrid creations that belie first impressions and challenge homonormative and heteronomative gazes.

Curated by artist and scholar Marissa Largo, this intervention includes an artist/curator talk that will provide opportunities to consider the experiences of queers of colour and artistic production in the midst of mainstream representations proliferated by the Internet and popular culture. The guided tour offers an up-close and behind-the-scenes look at Manapul’s exquisite, highly crafted works of art.

In light of WorldPride, Manapul mobilizes compelling and subversive visual strategies to assert that queerness is not a universal experience, but is mediated by race, class, culture, and other subjectivities. These are sometimes unaccounted for by globalized discourses of queerness, which purport solidarity and pride at the expense of difference. Manapul’s artistic intervention in WorldPride is an assertion of his experiences from the margins of the margin in the global city.
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Julius Poncelet Manapul was born in Manila, Philippines in 1980 and immigrated to Toronto, Canada in 1990. He attained his Bachelors of Fine Arts in 2009 from the Ontario College of Art and Design University. He completed a one-year residency in Paris, France and earned a Professional Art Studio certificate from the Toronto School of Art in 2011. Julius completed his Masters of Visual Studies at University of Toronto in 2013. His work addresses themes of post-colonialism, immigration, sexual identity, and identity construction.

Marissa Largo is a second year PhD student at OISE University of Toronto. She holds an honours degree in Visual Arts and a Bachelors of Education from York University and has a Masters degree in Art Education from Concordia University. In 2013, she was awarded the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for her doctoral project on contemporary Filipino/a Canadian visual artists.
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GALLERY HOURS
Sunday: 12-5pm
Monday to Thursday: 10am-6pm
Friday, June 27th: 10am-5pm

ARTIST/CURATOR TALK
Tuesday, June 24th, 3-4pm

GUIDED TOUR
Thursday, June 26th: 3-4pm

CLOSING EVENT
Friday, June 27th: 7-10pm

"CABINET OF QUEERIOSITIES" by JULIUS PONCELET MANAPUL, TORONTO WORLD PRIDE 2014.

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