Andia Coral Newton South East London based maker and project coordinator
Distese-Queerness oltre i confini
Curated by Finn Brown and Lorenzo Xiques Lopez
7 – 28 June 2025
YAG/garage, Pescara, Italy
“On Saturday 7 June, the exhibition Distese – Queerness oltre i Confini opens, curated by Finn Brown and Lorenzo Xiques Lopez, a collective that explores the multiple forms of queer identity through the art of Freya Gascoyne, Soul Baraitser, Andia Coral Newton, Asafe Ghalib, Dario Biancullo, Kobramulata, Sarà Leghissa and Taquitojocoque and Matteo Domenichetti, eight Italian and English artists.
Painting, photography, installations, fabrics, words and sounds become tools to reflect, cross and subvert the social, cultural and symbolic boundaries that define what is visible, acceptable, “normal”.
Queer art, here, is not just expression but a political and affective gesture: a language that challenges norms and categories, opening spaces of care, resistance and possibility.
The exhibition develops as a crossing, a plural landscape in which identity is not given but constantly questioned, reinvented, lived.
Distese is an invitation to look beyond imposed limits and imagine new ways of existence.”
Over the course of the residency, I created a series of new drawings, painted with natural pigments made from local plants. These were shown with older works in the resulting exhibition.
Various weaving cartoons, drawn with handmade pigments:
Indigo from London.
Cherries and Avocado stones from the dinner table.
Mint from the walk up the hill.
Walnut husks, Eucalyptus bark and Ginestra from the garden of new friends in Pescara.
Images from the Private View: