At the Table | The Architecture of Control

 

At the Table: The Architecture of Control is a research-based installation and portrait project examining the structural processes through which 2SLGBTQ+ people have been excluded from the institutional rooms where decisions about their lives were made. The work is not about the consequences of that exclusion. It is about the mechanism.

At the centre of the work is a series of large-scale portraits. Each sitter faces the viewer from a white table surface. Behind them, text authored by the subjects moves across the picture plane in a dense, unpunctuated, all-caps block, the visual language of institutional documents. The friction between that language and the bodies it surrounds is the argument the portraits make.

Centered in the gallery is a single institutional table, chair bolted and locked. Around it, twelve portraits. The exclusion is not historical. It is structural. It is still here.