SPILLAGE

April 26, 2025 - June 22, 2025

20*20 House Gallery, Lansdowne, PA

Spillage is an interactive sculpture referencing an archives reading room table. The sculpture challenges ideas of institutional and cultural memory by allowing the viewer to make choices about what information lives, dies, and spills. Stretching up the wall of the exhibition space is a hardened fabric sculpture that covers two reading room tables. Viewers are asked to interact with the acid free archival grade boxes filled with analog and digital ‘archival materials’ related to queer histories of care, activism, art, joy, violence, and survival as well as manifestos on censorship and information from 1920-2025. They are encouraged to take ephemera home, tear it up, frame it, forget it, share it with a friend, or remember their favorite parts, deciding what amount and type of access to the information the next viewer will have. Queer histories are alive and find their way to those who are looking for it. The interactive sculpture draws attention to the movement of information and how much or little control we have over what is remembered or forgotten.

Spillage was included in the group exhibition Homecoming: The Comforts and Complications of LGBTQIA+ Domestic Life curated by Meg Wolensky.

Hardening Fabric WIP Photographs

Photographs by Saif Almusawi