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Chapter NY is honored to present Transcendent, Tourmaline’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The Miami-based artist presents a new body of photographs alongside a short film that continues her longstanding engagement with the memory and political imagination of Marsha P. Johnson (1945–1992), one of the most vital figures of the LGBTQ rights movement of the 1960s and 70s. Drawing from personal archives and her own image-making practice, Tourmaline approaches history as a life force reactivated through beauty, collective remembrance, and human presence.
A luminous series of cinematic self-portraits, staged within the canals of Venice, anchors the exhibition. Central to these works is the memory of the “Marsha P. Johnson Cruise,” during which Johnson gathered friends aboard the Staten Island Ferry and invited them, if only briefly, to orient themselves toward pleasure and possibility while gazing toward the Statue of Liberty. In Transcendent, Tourmaline reimagines that gesture as…
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Chapter NY is honored to present Transcendent, Tourmaline’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The Miami-based artist presents a new body of photographs alongside a short film that continues her longstanding engagement with the memory and political imagination of Marsha P. Johnson (1945–1992), one of the most vital figures of the LGBTQ rights movement of the 1960s and 70s. Drawing from personal archives and her own image-making practice, Tourmaline approaches history as a life force reactivated through beauty, collective remembrance, and human presence.
A luminous series of cinematic self-portraits, staged within the canals of Venice, anchors the exhibition. Central to these works is the memory of the “Marsha P. Johnson Cruise,” during which Johnson gathered friends aboard the Staten Island Ferry and invited them, if only briefly, to orient themselves toward pleasure and possibility while gazing toward the Statue of Liberty. In Transcendent, Tourmaline reimagines that gesture as…
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