Policing Gender in Disruptive Perspectives at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago

Oct 12 — Dec 22, 2017

Artists: Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst, Alexandre Haefeli, Laurence Rasti, Jess T. Dugan, Leonard Suryajaya, Lorenzo Triburgo, Barbara Davatz

Policing Gender installed at MoCP

Disruptive Perspectives, MoCP openging night with Allison Grant, Alexandre Haefeli, Leonard Suryajaya, Lorenzo Triburgo, Jess T. Dugan, Laurence Rasti, and Nadine Wietlisbach

Disruptive Perspectives is an exhibition that explores gender, sexuality, and identity. The artists included use photography to articulate an expansive range of identities that cannot be sufficiently characterized using simplistic binaries. Rather than rendering identity as fixed, the works on view consider gender and sexuality as negotiations that are shaped by the human psyche, the passage of time, and the complex relationship between self and other.

This exhibition is co-curated by Allison Grant, former assistant curator of exhibitions and education at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago and Nadine Wietlisbach, director at Photoforum Pasquart in Biel, Switzerland. The exhibition will be presented simultaneously at both curators’ home institutions.