Monsters of the Apocalypse acts as a queer reimagining of the end of the world, as well as a proposal for what a new one might look like. Using the language and presentation of radical preachers as well as her own experience living as a transfemme of color within a Eurocentric heteronormative society, Patel investigates how the monstrous body (the “other”) can be used to create fear and revulsion, but also as a site of exploration and societal growth. In us, we all have a monster waiting to get out, but to find them, we must die, and we must be reborn. Patel scooped the top prize at the 2022 RDS Visual Arts Award and this show forms part of Pallas’s artist-initiated project series.
Pallas Projects/Studios until Thursday April 28, closing event performance The Preacher’s Sermon that night at 6pm.
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