Philip Dufva
Date: October 5-11
Born 1993. raised in Stockholm. entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 2017, graduated in 2020, with an exhibition recently at the Academy of Fine Arts
His way of work is largely formed by his encounter with the outside world and how he relate to the public space. He moves between a historical perspective and queer readings of objects, architecture and history. An applicant and desire for new ways of seeing, experiencing and exploring the relationship between memory and the present. Where rubbing that can occur between the self and the environment is where Philip works. He use cruising as a method of seeing desires through the city. Can cruising be used as a non-normative movement pattern or sight? My starting point is drawing and gaze, as he think they are essential to each other. For Philip, it’s about touch, the hand’s touch of the pen, the paper and by extension the viewer. The intimate act of drawing, when we end up uninhibited between or in front of the artist’s desire, desire and directness he work to look at how architectural decisions affect the movement, desire and desire of queer / non-normative bodies in the public space.
