THE FLOURISHING EDGE

GARDINER MUSEUM WEBSITE: 

"In this site-specific installation, artist Zachari Logan brings ceramics into the centre of his long-standing exploration of weeds, wildflowers, and ditches as avatars of queer male embodiment. Known for his exquisitely rendered drawings, Logan’s delicate plant forms evoke a ‘re-wilding’ of the body, where growth and fecundity arise out of material and form. Including the ditch as a liminal, queer space that thrives on the margins as well as individual, elaborately painted specimens, Logan transforms the physical body into an aspect of nature, resisting the containment of the vitrine."

The installation is across three levels of the Museum’s soaring stairwell gallery.

ARTIST'S STATEMENT:

Although displayed within the vitrines of the Joan Courtois Gallery, these works challenge containment. The compositions and the materials chosen—glazed and unglazed ceramic, paper elements, and my own hair, as either root or flowering systems—suggest an inexorable queer geography. They represent a flourishing edge that touches the eye to reveal queer existence as both beautiful and essential to understanding society and the world as a whole.

July 12, 2023 – June 30, 2024
Joan Courtois Gallery.

Gallery and artist commission supported by the Thor E and Nicole Eaton Family Charitable Foundation