Close Looking: Queer African Art and INTIMACY
- Paul Emmanuel
- Apr 13
- 1 min read
Updated: Apr 24
These works explore intimacy in queer African art through vulnerability, connection, and the experience of being seen.
They attend to both inner and shared spaces, where identity, memory, and feeling take shape.
Marc Standing
My Own Peculiar (2024)
Marc Standing’s My Own Peculiar explores intimacy through the hidden and shifting self, where identity is shaped by memory, protection, and inner experience.
Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki
2 Lizards (2020)
An animated portrait of companionship in isolation, where intimacy becomes a way of surviving loneliness, uncertainty, and social upheaval.
Rachid Boukharta
Le jardin des proies 4 and Le jardin des proies 2 (2022)
Two floral portraits that imagine intimacy as quiet, vulnerable, and deeply rooted in landscape, longing, and cultural memory.
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