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Upcoming:
Pale Horse
Julie Rae Powers & Kelsey Sucena
Opening: September 10th
Closing: October 1st
Flow Space Gallery is excited to present Pale Horse, a collaborative project between artists Julie Rae Powers and Kelsey Sucena. Their work explores their identities as two rural queer artists in multidisciplinary practices that prioritizes queer and trans* photographic authorship. Rooted in the Midwest, Appalachia and rural New York, Pale Horse draws inspiration from the DIY music scene and the underground communities that have shaped their lives.
In a return to analog photography, Powers and Sucena consider the camera as a tool for building an archive, one that holds queer and trans* experiences that are frequently excluded, distorted or erased from dominate histories during volatile political times. Their work speaks to each other through both material and metaphor, a physical record of bodies, places and experiences.
Drawing inspiration from the biblical Four Horsemen of the apocalypse, Powers and Sucena consider trans* filks as apocalyptic subjects and the photographs as the carrier of death during the decline of an empire as both witness and artifact.
To photograph one another is to insist upon a record and during this political time, Pale Horse creates that document for future communities and awareness. The photographs are a form of queer transmission allowing each artist to share their voices, experiences and communities.
About
Flow Space was created from a deep love for the arts and a commitment to community.
More than a gallery, Flow Space is a community rooted art space, dedicated to showcasing the powerful, personal, and political works of artists who may exist outside traditional structures of recognition, self-taught visionaries, and those forging paths on their terms. With a particular focus on supporting women-identifying and LGBTQIA+ artists, Flow Space seeks to make room for those too often overlooked and to affirm the importance of their voices.
Flow Space extends beyond the confines of visual art, aiming to be a platform for lived experience, storytelling, and unapologetic self-expression in all its forms. Here, there is no expectation to explain or conform. We believe in art without censorship, identity without compromise, and community without judgment.
