Gay Sex, Excess, and Work– All Lights On/All Lights Off
- Kevin Mulvey
- Graduate Fine Arts Department, Weitzman School of Design (PennDesign)
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Student Creative Production Grant
Work by Kevin Mulvey.
Through long exposures on wood pulp paper, developed with a rust solution and wheat pasted onto glass, Kevin Mulvey will be making a series of collages depicting relationships between gay sexuality, labor, and excess time and energy, illuminated by rigs of light. The panes of glass will be presented within door and window-like frames, referencing the windows and doors of shuttered buildings covered in old newspapers. Lighting rigs will render these sculptural collages as lightboxes. Mulvey intends for there to be three sculptures in this series: two windows and a door. The intended location for exhibiting these sculptures is a public space, such as the William Way LGBT Center or Bike Stop leather bar. These collaged systems of paper materials are meant to present like bodies (the door) or landscapes (windows); Mulvey does not imagine them as autonomous works presiding in a sterile white cube environment, but breathing or beating like organs in a functioning living space with all its associations and activities.