Opening: February/March 2024 Exhibitions at Firstdraft

Join Firstdraft for our first(!) Exhibition Openings of the year on 9 February 2024. 

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Firstdraft will be undertaking all necessary measures to ensure the safety of visitors. The wearing of face masks indoors is recommended but not required.

Please read our information for visitors during COVID-19.

Gallery 1

Luddite/Sodomite

Charles Levi 

Luddite/Sodomite is a series of four textile and embroidery installations that investigate the immediate link between labour and textile through a queer lens. Engaging with historic activism of textile labour and similarly arduous, referential queer handmaking processes, this series acquires a diaristic quality that underlines the importance of having a manual and tactile approach; positioning the hand and the manual use of a needle as a necessary, bodily tool for manifesting, consuming and laboriously stitching a distinct queer experience.

Gallery 2

You Won’t Believe The Snap In Your Throat

Corey Black

You Won’t Believe The Snap In Your Throat locates the processes of digestion at the locus of industrial and post-industrial fabrication methods. Examining the consumption, secretion and expulsion of various materials, toxic and suggestive, Black’s work reflects and evinces the processes of their making.

Gallery 3 

I feel the weight of the minute as I bend my body towards the clock

Amanda Bennetts

I feel the weight of the minute as I bend my body towards the clock is a multimedia installation examining time and the labour of self-care for the disabled and ill body. In a society that centralises wellness as the default mode of existence, sickness is placed as temporary, an abhorrent to the norm

Gallery 4

Residues 

Vedika Rampal 

Residues is a material inquiry into the complex relationship between communal violence and communal rape in post-Partition South Asia. To be post-Partition, is simultaneously to be post-colonial. Yet the wounds of Empire still infiltrate and seep through folds of diasporic and intergenerational memory today. Rampal’s installation thus can be perceived as a site, an image of the aftermath of riot and upheaval, conscious of the weight of silence.

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