Close Looking: Queer African Art and FUTURES
- Mark Auslander
- Mar 24
- 1 min read
Updated: Apr 24
These works explore futures in queer African art through imagination, transformation, and possibility.
They open space for new ways of being beyond fixed identities and inherited structures.
Tarek Lakhrissi
Out of the Blue (2019)
Tarek Lakhrissi’s Out of the Blue imagines transformation through a surreal journey of self-realization, where new identities emerge and alternative futures take shape.
Isaac Kariuki
Weaponise the Internet (2015)
A portrait that imagines the internet as a site of resistance, where identity, visibility, and power can be recoded for the future.
Mahmoud Khaled
Do You Have Work Tomorrow? (2013)
A student perspective by Yuri Son and Ami Hirano
A photographic series that imagines the digital future as a space of queer connection, where desire and danger are always entangled.
Mahmoud Khaled
Do You Have Work Tomorrow? (2013)
A student perspective by Alexander Nagle
A photographic series that imagines the digital future as a space of queer connection, where desire and danger are always entangled.
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