Join Xavier White, the curator of Under Our Skin, for a special tour of key works and his thought process behind the exhibition.
Under Our Skin is group show taking place in the Tate Library in Brixton during LGBTQ+ History Month. It's curated by the openly queer artist, Xavier White (b. 1993) and features artists with a connection to the borough of Lambeth, and beyond.
Under Our Skin examines what lies beneath the surfaces we’ve learned to present - the lessons we absorbed, the masks we wore, and the truths we eventually let out. Through diverse queer perspectives, this group exhibition explores how identity is taught, tested, and ultimately embodied. From classrooms to coming out to coming undone, from bullying to belonging, these works expose the ways people and places have got under our skin. They reveal the marks that made us: the words that bruised, the lessons that liberated, the scars left by survival.
Artists on show:
Andy Matheson, Athrú, Åsa Johannesson, BadenClare, Bee (beeillustrates), Beth Hunt, Casper Hong, Chris Hughes-Copping, Christopher Lieberman, Ciáran C., Conor Collins, Eli Delbaere, Eva Sbaraini, Fiona Freund, Finn Brown, Gavin Dobson, IJ Duncan, Iain Gillespie, James Robert Morrison, Judeam Journal, Kevin Kane, Luke Anthony Rooney, Luke Beech, Marceline Birkholz, Marcia White, Marty Davies, Nigel Grimmer, Olympia Alsawi, Román Lokati, Roxana Halls, Sunil Gupta & Charan Singh, Wayward Photo, Xavier White, Ying (HsinYing Lin)
During the launch we will have a panel on the importance of queer art.
The gallery space for this LGBTQ+ History Month art exhibition has been kindly donated by Brixton (Tate) Library. There will be beer, however, if you’d like to drink something else to celebrate, please may we encourage you to BYOB.
Location:
Brixton (Tate) Library, Brixton Oval, London SW2 1JQ