Closing Ceremony: Eva Wo: FORBIDDEN CITY (A Peep Show Retrospective)
Eva Wo: FORBIDDEN CITY (A Peep Show Retrospective)
Sept 8-Sept 22, 2022
Closing Reception: Friday, September 30
Last chance to catch Forbidden City is Friday September 30th, 6-10pm for closing ceremony. Free and open to anyone over 18, masks required.
This time the Infinite Peep is an XXX hookup for curious eyes. Get ready as @slutsnax and a lover will give 30 Minute shows at 6:15, 7:15, and 8:15pm.
For the more adventurous, when the curtain is open, the booth is welcome for your own spontaneous peep show - be your own fantasy maker. Those interested are welcome to contact the artist directly if they want to plan and need the rundown on how it works. ⚙️
Additionally Anne and Eva have produced a set of Collect-Em-All Infinite Peep postcards to assemble for viewing and performing at home! Tokens included! These will be available along with Sun Bunny decks, stickers, posters, and other offerings.
ACCESSIBILITY: There are five steps leading from the street-level to the first-floor landing where the passenger elevator picks-up/drops-off. The entry into/out of the elevator is 29-inches wide, so may not accommodate all wheelchairs or motorized chairs.
Opening reception: Thursday, Sept. 8 6-9 pm
West Vagina & special guest 6-9 pm.
First Friday: Friday, Sept 9, 6-10 pm
Topsy Pendejo & Mia Segreto 6-9 pm
PUSSY PUSSY PUSSY EVERYWHERE! Live Nude Girls!
PRACTICE Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Eva Wo. Forbidden City (A Peep Show Retrospective) features several bodies of work including installation, digital collage, lenticular, self-portraiture and performance art. The exhibition will also debut a live, interactive “peep show” booth, a NSFW playing card deck to take hom
e, as well as a conjoining retrospective of over twenty short films, produced between 2015 and 2022. The focal point of Wo’s multidisciplinary practice is to both imagine and call-in a vivid utopian future of uncensored gender and sexual self-determination for all. To achieve this, the bold and colorful works that comprise Forbidden City (A Peep Show Retrospective) embrace the tension between the joyous and the obscene by way of sweaty play within the boundlessness of queer freak sexuality. In joyous celebration, Wo realizes a truly free, pro-sex work and pro-porn universe.
At the beating heart of Forbidden City (A Peep Show Retrospective) is its interactive peep show. Inspired by the pulsating neon street signs of 70s Times Square, Wo’s free-standing, interactive INFINITE PEEP show booth is adorned with an elaborate and glitzy scalloped edge, flashing light bulbs and an opening universe right before your eyes. Activate for the price of one creep coin, of the first 100 visitors will receive a free sample. Once the viewer inserts a pleasure coin and peers through the peep hole, a world of flowers, mirrors, lights and live performance art opens up before their eyes.
Wo’s film retrospective offers the viewer an opportunity to experience unadulterated queer/transcreativity and sexuality on screen. Throughout their rich archive of sci-fi fever dreams, playfully erotic photoshoots and lesbionic strip teases, Wo creates other worlds to abandon the otherwise transphobic and cisnormative status quo in porn.
Wo’s dynamic pin-up playing card deck, Sun Bunny NSFW Playing Cards (2022), also joins these themes in a whimsical, hand-held medium. Whereas traditional pin-up cards depict women in risqué poses by male artists, Wo’s cards recenter the sexual autonomy of the figure in the frame. Erotic, colorful and audacious, each card collages an original photo of the artist by Shoog McDaniel, resulting in a lush and seductive deck unlike any other.
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