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Friday 28th August, 7pm
Join us for the screening of the film poem by Gabrielle Victoria Meyerowitz.
This film - poem is a love story about two 'old nuns' who fall in love and grapple with their own fear & the dogmatic regulations of the 'convent and priest' who forbid and shame them for their queer desire. Through metaphor, subtext, kitsch, camp humour & fantasy - the 'nuns' navigate their way through
WHY NUNS?
A nun is both hidden and holy. She embodies a life of renunciation, duty, and devotion toward an ethereal spirit beyond one’s immediate physical environment or stage, and born-into-identity. This is a version of queered love that is misaligned with societal norms, and redirected toward an unseen or ineffable presence. The nun’s life of symbolic celibacy and sacrifice is a parable for queer longing: a desire often coded & exiled from public expression into interiority, imagination & the divine. Personal desire is sublimated into sacred practice. The nun often finds freedom through coded glitches that safely express their suppressed queered voice of soul through naked veiled truths.
Gabrielle Victoria Meyerowitz - artist statement
In all I do I am simply seeking articulation of the universality and connectivity that stirs inside the cracks of common places, existing momentarily in duets between sound and surface; most of my work is conversation between space and place, often created with found material. I seek ways to reflect the daily monotony of a new place and articulate that which is around me. Suddenly in the chaotic of individualism, foreign spaces are stripped of costume and become primordial noise or '“keter”, a kabbalistic word meaning “limitless light” or beginning before all. This is my objectiv.
Friday 28th August, 7pm
Join us for the screening of the film poem by Gabrielle Victoria Meyerowitz.
This film - poem is a love story about two 'old nuns' who fall in love and grapple with their own fear & the dogmatic regulations of the 'convent and priest' who forbid and shame them for their queer desire. Through metaphor, subtext, kitsch, camp humour & fantasy - the 'nuns' navigate their way through
WHY NUNS?
A nun is both hidden and holy. She embodies a life of renunciation, duty, and devotion toward an ethereal spirit beyond one’s immediate physical environment or stage, and born-into-identity. This is a version of queered love that is misaligned with societal norms, and redirected toward an unseen or ineffable presence. The nun’s life of symbolic celibacy and sacrifice is a parable for queer longing: a desire often coded & exiled from public expression into interiority, imagination & the divine. Personal desire is sublimated into sacred practice. The nun often finds freedom through coded glitches that safely express their suppressed queered voice of soul through naked veiled truths.
Gabrielle Victoria Meyerowitz - artist statement
In all I do I am simply seeking articulation of the universality and connectivity that stirs inside the cracks of common places, existing momentarily in duets between sound and surface; most of my work is conversation between space and place, often created with found material. I seek ways to reflect the daily monotony of a new place and articulate that which is around me. Suddenly in the chaotic of individualism, foreign spaces are stripped of costume and become primordial noise or '“keter”, a kabbalistic word meaning “limitless light” or beginning before all. This is my objectiv.
