Through the Looking Glass: Inside My Domestic Portrait
About the Series:
"Through the Looking Glass: Inside My Domestic Portrait"
2013
Julius Poncelet Manapul's earlier art appropriated iconography from structures of oppression in his personal and cultural history and presented pieces constructed from gay pornography with personal documents. These creations inverted the power dynamics present in his experience o
"Through the Looking Glass: Inside My Domestic Portrait"
2013
Julius Poncelet Manapul's earlier art appropriated iconography from structures of oppression in his personal and cultural history and presented pieces constructed from gay pornography with personal documents. These creations inverted the power dynamics present in his experience of religion, immigration, sexuality and gender. In this show, Julius' looks to the future and crafts a home for his and his husbands fictional child, Christian James. The gallery transforms into two rooms - a child's room and master bedroom - using the fragile materials of paper and Balikbayan cardboard box. Repeating images and patterns are used throughout the space including Julius' marriage certificate, a sign of the current normative queer family structure, and sexualized and ideal male figures. The exhibition displays the painful journey of identity construction and home-finding for a Queer Filipino man who is setting up a life in Canada. The home and occupants are transient suggestions of a future that can never be realized because of the Queer coupling. In Canada he can transform with possessions and can display his sexuality openly with his husband, but queer sex remains for pleasure without transforming into the possibility of the ultimate future - a shared child.
Gallery 2
About the Series:
This series stems from the show "Through the Looking Glass: Inside My Domestic Portrait", looking at the absence of the figure the blank space removes the representations of the Homonormative bodies, leaving the blank space with possible alternative for many diasporic bodies. The silhouettes are crafted from gay porn and classical paintings and sculptures of the male form. The "Shooting Blanks" series comments on the impossibility of procreation between two men, to produce an offspring. Shooting blanks hints on the lack off purpose of the semen to be rendered invisible.
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