Perpetual Motion

Incidental Gestures
Maria Antelman & Jules Gimbrone

October 6 – November 2, 2019
Melanie Flood Projects
420 SW WASHINGTON STREET, #301
PORTLAND, OR 97204

Jules Gimbrone’s photographs depict the corporeal resonating sculpture, Perpetual Motion. Standing on the shore of the Long Island Sound, vessels filled with brackish water reflect their own image and the natural environment. The glass, studded with sonic transducers, imply an imagined sound, or voice, speaking back to the waves. Gimbrone carves out a queer space, one contingent on a sounding subject’s illegible and instable identity–a flux caught within the frozen slice of a photograph. Here the flexible body, the imagined body and the listening body is able to perceive information beyond a quick binary-based flattening.*

“What I call Trans-Sensing Modalities are methods that trans people— specifically those who identify as transgender, but also people whose subjectivity is unmoored from the dominant culture—intuitively cultivate to navigate the world. An emphasis on sensory presence and integration, such as trans, is a reprioritization of the nuanced body, the flexible body, the imagined body, and the listening body, one that is able to perceive information beyond a quick binary-based flattening.”