We are thrilled to announce our new collaboration with JSpot, bringing a dynamic program of time-based media works to our gallery window on Tecumseth Street. For the inaugural presentation, we are proud to showcase Gravity's Lost by Morris Fox, a member of the Sky Fine Foods Artist collective.
Gravity's Lost is a video essay that explores themes of haunting, memory and the decay of archives and self(s). The poetic essay appears as a text overlay on-top of an IMVU digital avatar who dances, reads and interacts with objects and ruins that float in a virtual environment I created, inspired by Sailor Moon's Negaverse, as well as the space junk, remnants of satellites and archival matter that might be left adrift in a speculative apocalypse. The work is a sort of queer cruise through the afterlives of memories and queer communities that refuse to be erased, even as digital algo's and "community guidelines" censure, delete and shadow-ban subjects that fall outside of heteronormativity.
Morris Fox (he/they) is a queer-gothic artist/writer, and an Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD candidate at Concordia (Tiohtiá:ke-Mooniyang-Montréal). Fox’s practice cruises the haunted house for feelings of community. Words and materials become a net that enmeshes, become a necropolis, a cemetery of desire. He interconnects eco-poetry, self-performance, VR, video, textiles, chainmaille, with queer material research, rubbing against ruins of memory, shimmering with apocalyptic imaginaries.
Fox graduated from SAIC’s Low Residency MFA (2018), and Concordia’s Studio Arts BFA (2011). Past exhibitions include: Regarde! Tiotiá:ke (2023), Sex Ecologies: Becoming Plastic, Stoveworks (2023), Psionic Hope, Astonishing Dream, Trinity Square Video (2023), My Gay Mediaeval Times, Spacemaker II, (2022), Vestiges&Remains, Artcite Inc., (2022), Claudia Hart’s Ludicy, Hyphen Hubs (2021), Gothwerk, Hotwheelz Festival (2020). Fox interned at the Icelandic Textile Centre, Blönduós (2020), and completed artist residencies including NES, Skagaströnd (2019), Icelandic Textile Centre (2019), Artscape Gibraltar Point, (2018). He is a member of the collective QueerSoftOrange.