Image: James Barth, Heap, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane.

Unbecoming examines the ‘queer gothic’, characterising it through dark, horror-tinged imagery and themes; states of collapse and decomposition; and a focus on isolation and the individual. These themes are posed as counter-narratives to more dominant and typical framings of queerness through emergence, togetherness and communality.

Unbecoming is a group exhibition of new and recent works presented across La Trobe Art Institute. The exhibition argues for the importance of new subcultural positions within queerness in an era in which the queer movement is threatened by its subsumption within popular culture. The exhibition considers how these subcultures’ derivations are generative, creating an antagonistic resistance to queerness’ increasingly monolithic status. Guest curated by Tim Riley Walsh.

Artists: James Barth, Neve Curnow, Alicia Frankovich, Matthew Harris, Yvette James, Callum McGrath and Keemon Williams.

Opening event: Saturday 24 May, 2-4 pm