Divergent archetypes for old ideas

Image: 'Knowing' 2024 by Brent Leideritz

A photographic reclamation for aspiring ways of being, through the act of queering, oppositional action, & communal play

Divergent archetypes for old ideas is a collection of photographic portraits and promptographic resolutions that foreground aspiring ways of being, where queer and alternative performances of self stand against religious notions of shame and judgement. With research as photographer, and subject, and in collaboration with my ‘othered’ community, we actively queer and playfully weaponise: creative space for oppositional action; communal play; individual agency; self-expression; gender performativity; and the erotic.

In deconstructing, rearranging, recontextualising, and appropriating binary archetypes and narratives, this collection enables the empowerment of individuals and communities, and in doing so, inspires those who have felt shame, to make a stand, for themselves, and those they love.

Exhibition also online at b.leideritz.com.

Image 1: "The pale horse and death" (detail), 2023 by Brent Leideritz
Image 2: "Ecce homo" (detail), 2024 by Brent Leideritz
Image 3: "The watchers" (detail), 2024 by Brent Leideritz
Image 4: "Triple mother @&#king" (detail), 2024 by Brent Leideritz
Image 5: "Queer unilimited VI" (detail), 2024 by Brent Leideritz

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Dates & Times

OPENING Tue 21 Jan 5-7pm
EXHIBITION 21-25 Jan, 28 Jan-1 Feb | Tue-Fri 12-7pm | Sat 12-4pm
DIGITAL 24hrs @ b.leideritz.com

Tickets

FREE

Location

fortyfivedownstairs

45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne CBD

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Train

Parliament or Flinders Street

Tram

11, 12, 48, 109 to stop 8 (Spring St/Collins St) | tram 35, 70, 75 to stop 8 (Spring St/Flinders St)

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Premiere

WARNINGS

Nudity, Themes of a sexual nature, Mature themes, Themes of horror
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