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The Inverts Convenant

By Day Magee – View Artist’s Profile

Two weeks before the COVID-19 lockdown, the artist exhibited symptoms of syphilis, leaving stigmata-like marks on their palms; a fever, and deep, painful fissures. They knowingly contracted the disease sexually through their anus months prior in a bout of loneliness and apathy. In creating this work, the artist performs to camera and primes the sandpaper using the ‘queer sick body’ to intermingle infected blood with the grain of the canvas.

 

Categories: Day Magee, Drawing, Nua 2021, Performance, Video Tags: Artist, ArtIsWork, Day Magee, Inverts Convenant, Make Your World Creative, Nua Collective, Original Artwork, Performative Drawing, Queer
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Artist

Day Magee

Year

2019

Material

Performative Drawing

Dimensions

275cm x 150cm

Description

Central to the work is the artist’s internalised homophobia, sewn under an Evangelical upbringing that culminated in conversion therapy following same-sex sexual assault as a young teenager Notions of queerness as an inversion of the hetero-centric, “natural” order; of sin manifesting in physical and spiritual illness is then made manifest in a self-fulfilling prophecy: self-destruction played out as a queer sexual rite of passage. The resultant work is a Hellscape of the artist’s toxic associations with sex – queer abjections & biblical abominations depicted on the image’s abrasive surface.

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