08/30/2022
PRACTICE Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Eva Wo. Forbidden City (A Peep Show Retrospective) features several bodies of work including installation, digital collage, lenticular, self-portraiture and performance art. The exhibition will also debut a live, interactive “peep show” booth, a NSFW playing card deck to take home, as well as a conjoining retrospective of over twenty short films, produced between 2015 and 2022.
PRACTICE Gallery is open to the public Friday’s and Saturdays from 2-6 p.m. If you would like to drop by some other time please e-mail [email protected] for an appointment.
Exhibition will be open from Sept. 8 - Sept. 22, 2022 with Receptions on Thursday Sept. 8 from 6-9 p.m. and Friday Sept 9 from 6-9 p.m. (EST). Admission is free. 18+. Masks provided and required.
The focal point of Wo’s multidisciplinary practice is to both imagine and call-in a vivid utopian future of uncensored gender and sexual self-determination for all. To achieve this, the bold and colorful works that comprise Forbidden City embrace the tension between the joyous and the obscene by way of sweaty play within the boundlessness of q***r freak sexuality. In joyous celebration, Wo realizes a truly free, pro-sex work and pro-porn universe.
Wo’s dynamic pin-up playing card deck, Sun Bunny NSFW Playing Cards (2022), also joins these themes in a whimsical, hand-held medium. Whereas traditional pin-up cards depict women in risqué poses by male artists, Wo’s cards recenter the sexual autonomy of the figure in the frame. Erotic, colorful and audacious, each card collages an original photo of the artist by Shoog McDaniel, resulting in a lush and seductive deck unlike any other.
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