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Artist and Curator

Violet Bordin is a queer artist from San Francisco. Armed with a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in sculpture and a BA from Brown University in media theory and production, Bordin's intensive educational background informs their conceptual work. They are heavily reliant on theory and research, although their pieces often appear acutely unserious.

With an unapologetic focus on “white-womanisms”, Bordin navigates the intersectionality of gender and race in their work, offering a nuanced exploration of privilege and oppression. Their pieces delve into the intricacies of sex as a manifestation of white supremacy. Incorporating elements of surveillance and voyeurism, Bordin's art becomes a reflection on the intrusion into personal spaces and the control mechanisms prevalent in our digitally connected world. The juxtaposition of shock and humor in Bordin's work invites viewers to grapple with uncomfortable realities while engaging in a dialogue that transcends conventional artistic boundaries.

Tammer Nassiff

Artist and Curator

Tammer Nassiff is an American contemporary artist dragging a blanket through puddles of interstate underpasses. His work seeks to pronounce the names of ideological subcultures growing under kitchen sinks and behind shower curtains. Through painting, sculpture, and digital medium, he reproduces pixels and reconstructs children’s toys amongst the rubble of suburban decline.

In his material explorations, Nassiff explores the malleability of camaraderie amongst the ideologically extreme, fabricating tableaus of impermanent soldiers and wastelands. Incorporating pattern, text, and silhouette, Nassiff’s work seeks rectify pop-art incursions with unfulfilled future.

Luca Varano

Artist and Curator

Luca Varano is an American photographer working across landscape, figure, and constructed image. His practice follows how desire, memory, and masculinity move through space, often focusing on environments where queer presence is implied rather than visible. He is interested in what is left behind, how bodies shape a place, and how a photograph can hold that trace without fully resolving it.

Drawing from both documentary observation and staged intervention, Varano treats photography as a way of testing images rather than confirming them. His work moves between precision and ambiguity, using light, distance, and detail to build tension between what is shown and what is withheld. Influenced by traditions of formal landscape photography alongside coded visual histories of queer representation, he approaches each image as part of a larger system rather than a singular moment.