Faith Holland presented solo exhibition Speculative Fetish at New York’s Transfer Gallery, which opened October 21, 2017 and ran to January 6.
Through installation, online components, a catalog and events, the work looks at the way “technology functions as metaphor for the body, both in the language we use and in the ways we behave.” Tapping into the intimate relationship we have with our personal devices, Holland explores the complexity of fetish, queer connection, abstraction and flesh: “they provide us with pleasure, and in exchange we offer care.”
Filling the space are photographs of heteronormative pairing of wires that are re-connected through ‘unexpected unions,’ screens of different devices playing GIFS and fused with pubic hair, lubricant or make-up, among other materials; a vinyl sign asking visitors to “remove their undergarments,” and a video of the artist bathing with ethernet cords.**
