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CURRENTLY ON | Still Beginning by Zach Toppin
Miłość is excited to announce the first solo exhibition of Zach Toppin, ‘Still Beginning’, presenting a new series of still lives which archive the personal lives of twelve of his trans masc community members: JJ, Libro, Romeo, Wet Mess, Kae, Sabah, Helios, Yasser, Baby, Osian, Marlo, and himself, honouring the precious objects of affirmation that work to build a trans life.
These still lives become essential portraits, a personal semiotics of a shaping and grounding of identity and individuality. They queer the idea of portraiture, taking away its physical body to refuse the societal intrusive obsession with trans bodies; they are portraits of spirit.
Within the constant journeying of transition, objects remain anchors while being charged with something supernatural. Zach manipulates perspective and proportions, tracing the shift from realist still lives to soulful portraits. The mundane becomes magical, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, as both everyday and unique objects become treasured tools of transformation, vehicles of self-expression. They make tools for living as trans in a heteropatriarchal society that attempts to deny, silence and oppress.
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