In Displacing Structures, traditional methods of weaving, netting, lacemaking, and basketry techniques are expanded upon to reveal and embrace the borderlands, queer bodies, and the tensions between structure and aberration. Traditional and unconventional materials come together to reveal forms that hold, frame, expand, and otherwise make room for the permeable edges. The grid acts as a visual framework for these artists to investigate place, identity, and belonging. Grids can be comforting in their clean predictability like the map of a well-defined city. However, the strict edges leave no room for the inherent disorder of a community. Languages, bodies, desires, abilities, and anomalies of all kinds need spaces to breathe and thrive. Agency and self-awareness come in acts of disruption. Straying from pattern allows room for critique of power structures, imposed binaries, and systems of oppression.

This exhibit is curated by Fafnir Adamites, Assistant Professor of Art, and Fiber Area Head, at CSULB.

Featuring the work of Fafnir Adamites, Molly Haynes, Jose Santiago Perez, and Jade Yumang, and Tomorrow, Asteroid x Jeanne Medina Le.

opening reception:
June 22 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Admission: FREE
Hours: Thursday - Saturday, 10am-4pm
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