Untitled (Forever Young, The Smiths). There is a light that never goes out. Detail.
Glenn Walls. Untitled (Forever Young, The Smiths). Mirror tiles, laser cut metal, gold beads, 2022. Words are taken from The Smiths’ 1985 song “There is a light that never goes out”.
Glenn Walls. Untitled (Forever Young, The Smiths). Mirror tiles, laser cut metal, gold beads, 2022. Words are taken from The Smiths’ 1985 song “There is a light that never goes out”.
Glenn Walls. Untitled (Forever Young, The Smiths). Mirror tiles, laser cut metal, gold beads, 2022. Words are taken from The Smiths’ 1985 song “There is a light that never goes out”.
Rationale
Architecture’s preoccupation with ‘normality’ has left little room for queer space to come to the fore. My current practice contributes to the public acknowledgment of queer space in the built environment by highlighting hidden identities. 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.
This work extends my practice to encompass a boarder approach to queer space through the placement of text from queer-identifying writers and singers in the built environment. This work aims to highlight how a perceived dominant heterosexual space can be altered to queer space. Utilising the language of Superstudio’s Anti-design grid that overshadow the personal and private needs of the individual I construct narratives, in this case by incorporating the lyrics by perceived queer singer/songwriter Morrisey of The Smiths that adds new layers to Superstudio’s anti-design mirrored grid architecture to imbue it with personal significance.
“And if a double-decker bus crashes into us to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die” is from The Smiths’ 1985 song, “There is a light and it never goes out”.
This work centres on redefining the masculine/heterosexual dominance of modernist structures and spaces via texts and realigns it with a sexual minority.
Forever Young Part 2
Glenn Walls. Untitled (Forever Young. Marsha P. Johnson & Harvey Milk). Digital print, wood, mirror perspex, mirror tiles 2022. Words are taken from the 1984 Alphaville song “Forever Young”.
Forever Young is a continuation of the series “Massacre – Bodies that Matter” from 2018 – 2019.
Violence against LGBTQI people continues with the recent shooting inside and outside a gay nightclub in Oslo, Norway in the early hours of Saturday 25th June 2022.
Glenn Walls. Untitled (Superstudio). Painted floor, wood, mirror perspex, mirror tiles 2022. Words are taken from the 1984 Alphaville song “Forever Young”.
Glenn Walls. Untitled (Forever Young). Gold glitter paper 2022. Words are taken from the 1984 Alphaville song “Forever Young”.
Forever Young
Violence against LGBTQI people continues with the recent shooting inside and outside a gay nightclub in Oslo, Norway in the early hours of Saturday 25th June 2022
Glenn Walls. Untitled (Take a look at the law man beating up the wrong guy). Metal plate, paper stack. 2022. Words are taken from David Bowie’s 1971 – 73 song “Life on Mars”.
Glenn Walls. Untitled (Forever Young. Marsha P. Johnson). Digital print. 2022. Words are taken from the 1984 Alphaville song “Forever Young”.
Forever Young is a continuation of the series “Massacre – Bodies that Matter” from 2018 – 2019.
Violence against LGBTQI people continues with the recent shooting inside and outside a gay nightclub in Oslo, Norway in the early hours of Saturday 25th June 2022.
More works to follow.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-25/norway-nightclub-shooting-police-possible-terrorism/101183546
LGBTQI+. Persecuted.
Glenn Walls. Fierce bitch seeks future ex-husband – David McDiarmid – Lost. Perspex on board. 29 x 42 cms (Book cover). 2019. From David McDiarmid, Rainbow Aphorisms digital print series, 1994.
Glenn Walls. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any – Alice Walker. Perspex on board. 29 x 42 cms (book cover). 2020.
Glenn Walls. For most of history, anonymous was a woman. Virginia Woolf. Cut short. Perspex on board. 29 x 42 cms. (Book cover). 2019.
Glenn Walls. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. Oscar Wilde. Jailed. Perspex on board. 29 x 42 cms (Book cover). 2019.
Glenn Walls. If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door. Harvey Milk. Murdered. Perspex on board. 29 x 42 cms. (Book cover). 2019.
Glenn Walls. LGBTQI+. Persecuted. 9 x Perspex on board. 29 x 42 cms. (Book cover). 2019 – 2020.
Reworking of book covers from my 2012 exhibition “Life Without Objects” held at TCB.
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