A selection of Fergus Greer's photographs of the inimitable Leigh Bowery are included in a ground-breaking exhibition at the centre for contemporary art in Geneva, Switzerland, running from January 25th - June 4th, 2023.
Chrysalis pays homage to the world's never-ending metamorphosis and all its organic (and inorganic) inhabitants. The exhibition explores the concept of mutability from a wide range of different formal, existential, and political angles. Each thing, each image, and each form in this exhibition is in flux-shifting from one state to another, becoming something else, cycling through multiple identities.
The individuals present here-as well as the plants and inorganic substances-become receptacles of these multiple identities. They form polyptychs, anthropomorphic and botanical sculptures that intertwine in a relentless rhythm of transformation, like a shapeshifting coral reef caught up in its own ceaseless mutation. There are no fixed images in this exhibition, no immutable lines or insuperable boundaries. Everything vibrates and quickens under the pressure of an inescapable intrinsic necessity: transformation.
January 25, 2023
