Exhibition Opening Event: Have You Ever Been Crying...

Never Project Space welcomes you to an exhibition opening of:
Have You Ever Been Crying In a Hospital In Full Drag

curated by Ellie Lee-Duncan
opening event 6pm Friday 28th October 2022

Have You Ever Been Crying In a Hospital In Full Drag
Brittany Walker Smith
Caitlin Devoy
Shannon Novak

How can camp aesthetics be playful, positive, and restorative?
Camp is ambitious. Using mixed media, these three artists explore camp aesthetics. At times they linger on nostalgia, at others there’s a tongue in cheek defiance.
Camp here is a playful subversion. It’s a resistance.

Clement Greenberg described kitsch as a “reservoir of accumulated experience” - and camp is a rich reservoir in direct opposition to the canon of high art.
Queer is a category, but it’s also a refusal of categorization.
It exists as non-normative: fantastic, different, strange, and subverts traditional ideas of gender and sexuality. Queer, argues Amelia Jones, is “that which indicates the impossibility of a subject or meaning staying still, in one determinable place.”

This exhibition runs from 28 October - 26 November 2022.
Thursday - Saturday 10-4
Never Project Space is an independent artist-run space in Frankton, Hamilton.
Current manager & creative director: Eliza Webster
Level 1, 123 Commerce Street,
Frankton, Hamilton,
New Zealand, 3204