AB/OB/JECTIONS
Matthew van Roden

AB/OB/JECTIONS is a semantic interrogation of ways of being. Consider the terms ‘subject’, ‘object’ and ‘abject’. A mere prefix fixes what is in and what is out of being and time. 

Often, queer bodies hold memories and knowledge of shifting between subject, object and abject positions. As designations, these positions can be both liberatory and brutal. 

Whilst the prefixes ‘sub’, ‘ob’ and ‘ab’ articulate states of being, The ‘ject’ of subject, object and abject (as well as eject, reject, inject etc.) introduces dynamic movement into the question of being.

‘Ject’ speaks to throwing, jettisoning and casting.

AB/OB/JECTIONS explores aspects of being that are thrown or cast through the fluid materialities of wax, text and flesh.

EXHIBITION

12 August — 3 September

OPENING

12 August, 6pm—8pm

ARTIST TALK

13 August, 11am