UC San Diego

Through traditional studio photography, appropriation, and collage techniques, Glance Gaze Look seeks to identify and question representations (or the lack thereof) of queerness in contemporary image-culture, in particular the mechanics of representation and the gaze as they relate to the act of looking at and consuming the body. It comprises an installation containing multiple related photographic series, all of which occupy a unique function of the act of looking. Like the footnotes of a book, the works contain self-referential images and text, consistently leading back and forth to one another. Each series is notably constructed through the use of historical and contemporary source imagery, text, and subjective material from the artist’s own camera and writings. Presented in whole, the exhibition speculates on and attempts to ameliorate the inadequate representations of queer female desire as told through past, current, and personal image systems.