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X-WR-CALNAME:Gallery Talk: Jackson Davidow
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DESCRIPTION:In this Gallery Talk\, Jackson Davidow will focus his discussio
 n on two of Carlos Reyes’s sculptural works that materially derive from 
 gay bathhouses.\n\nWhile West Side Club (2018) is a hanging installation o
 f salvaged sauna planks of cedar from the now-defunct New York bathhouse o
 f the same name\, 7269 (I)is a glass cylindrical form around a metal drain
  repurposed from the Melrose Spa in Los Angeles. Offering an abbreviated g
 enealogy of artistic and architectural engagements with the gay bathhouse 
 as a site of cruising and community\, Davidow will position these works wi
 thin historical and theoretical debates on queer space and public sex. He 
 will also ruminate on their evocative\, erotic\, and minimalist materialit
 ies—wood\, glass\, metal—through evidentiary and existential questions
  of the trace. Finally\, he will speculate on the political significance o
 f Reyes’s project. Do these works nostalgically function as white-cube m
 emorials to bygone of sexual cultures? Or do they call for new pursuits of
  pleasure and connection?
LOCATION:MIT List Visual Arts Center\, 20 Ames Street\, Building E15\, Camb
 ridge\, MA 02139
SUMMARY:Gallery Talk: Jackson Davidow
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.mit.edu/event/gallery_talk_jackson_davidow
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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