Glenn Walls – SUPER CREATIVE GRID

Glenn Walls. At the end of the day, people are just really disappointing. Black sequin material, mirror perspex letters, white frame 2021.

Glenn Walls. Remember the future is not yet written. Black sequin material, mirror perspex text, white frame 2021.

Glenn Walls. “If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life”. Quote from Oscar Wilde. Mirror ball, black sequin material, and mirror perspex text.

Glenn Walls. “If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life”. Quote from Oscar Wilde. Mirror ball, black sequin material, and mirror perspex text. Detail.

Architecture preoccupation with ‘normality’ has left little room for queer domestic space to come to the fore. This body of work contributes to public acknowledgment of queer space in the built environment, highlighting queer injustices. Few artists have broached this subject. I am interested in creating a personal definition of queer space that is not hidden and is a reaction against normative symbols of masculinity and the ‘heterosexual assumption’ presented by 1960s Italian architectural group Superstudio anti-design grid. Inspired by Cuban artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s work “Untitled” (Death by Gun), 1990, these works are based on research conducted on the gay and trans killings that took place in Sydney and worldwide in the late 1970s till now.