Christopher Aque
Wednesday, 25 December 2013
Work from his oeuvre.
Christopher Aque is a New York-based artist working in sculpture, video, publishing, photography, and installation. By repurposing everyday images and materials, his work refers to experiences of “queerness” or “otherness” that are at once familiar and unsettling. Personal and consumer items such as the Abercrombie bags Aque collected as a child, Vaseline petroleum jelly, record covers, and movie posters are recontextualized or recoded to represent larger cultural melodramas. Aque has recently shown at Laurel Gitlen (New York), the University of North Dakota, Practice Gallery (Philadelphia), and Peregrine Program (Chicago).