Jordan Azcune curated by Michaela Bear
Post-Christian Camp
7
July 2021
7
Jul
2021
31
Jul 2021
Gallery 1
Post-Christian Camp
Jordan Azcune curated by Michaela Bear
7
July 2021
7
July
2021
31
July 2021
Gallery 1
‘Camp taste is, above all, a mode of enjoyment, of appreciation – not judgement. Camp is generous. It wants to enjoy.’– Susan 55:13.Joyful. Generous. Post-Christian. Camp.For Jordan Azcune Camp is Art, Religion, Life.Post-Christian Camp is a playful queer celebration re-claiming religious aesthetics. Through sculptural wall works referencing spiritual iconography and floral ikebana displays, Post-Christian Camp draws upon Jordan’s own conflicted relationship to faith growing up queer and raised Jehovah’s Witness. Flowers, fragrant candle wax and archways become offerings of reflection for gallery visitors in a contemporary altar space. Through generous moments of grandeur and optics Jordan proposes alternative spiritual narratives that rethink and complicate connections to religion and queer culture.‘I’m not coming up with answers, I’m coming up with more questions. I’m not interested in definities, I’m interested in grey area. That grey area is actually a lot of colour.’– JordanNew installations by Jordan Azcune, curation and exhibition text by Michaela Bear.Quote: Sontag, S. “Notes on Camp.” United Kingdom: Penguin Books Limited, 2018 (originally published in 1964), p.13.
Exhibition documented by Aaron Rees.
‘Camp taste is, above all, a mode of enjoyment, of appreciation – not judgement. Camp is generous. It wants to enjoy.’– Susan 55:13.Joyful. Generous. Post-Christian. Camp.For Jordan Azcune Camp is Art, Religion, Life.Post-Christian Camp is a playful queer celebration re-claiming religious aesthetics. Through sculptural wall works referencing spiritual iconography and floral ikebana displays, Post-Christian Camp draws upon Jordan’s own conflicted relationship to faith growing up queer and raised Jehovah’s Witness. Flowers, fragrant candle wax and archways become offerings of reflection for gallery visitors in a contemporary altar space. Through generous moments of grandeur and optics Jordan proposes alternative spiritual narratives that rethink and complicate connections to religion and queer culture.‘I’m not coming up with answers, I’m coming up with more questions. I’m not interested in definities, I’m interested in grey area. That grey area is actually a lot of colour.’– JordanNew installations by Jordan Azcune, curation and exhibition text by Michaela Bear.Quote: Sontag, S. “Notes on Camp.” United Kingdom: Penguin Books Limited, 2018 (originally published in 1964), p.13.
Jordan Azcune
Jordan Azcune is an artist and maker based in Meanjin/Brisbane who is driven by materials and their processes. Fascinated with colour, optics, and spiritual connection, his artwork relates to the natural world, the body, and architecture. He is captivated by natural bee’s wax and its connection to heat, its elemental state of being both liquid, and solid.
Michaela Bear
Michaela Bear is an emerging writer and curator currently working at RMIT University in Naarm/Melbourne. She was assistant editor for the 2017 Honolulu Biennial and has written for a range of local and international publications including ArtAsiaPacific, The Biennial Foundation website, The Australian, New Zealand Journal of Art and VAULT.