Pixy Liao: Futari (Two Persons) @ Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery

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Pixy Liao: Futari (Two Persons) @ Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery

February 5th, 2022 by fstop

Pixy Liao, Listen, 2018

Pixy Liao: Futari (Two Persons)
January 18–March 10, 2022

Zoom Webinar: Tuesday, February 15th | 7:30pm ET

“Futari (Two Persons) is an exhibition of photographs depicting the ongoing relationship between the artist Pixy Liao and her Japanese partner and muse Moro. Liao met Moro at the University of Memphis in 2005 while attending graduate school, where she invited Moro, who is five years younger, to model for her. In some ways, this served to reverse expectations that women seek older and wiser men. From the beginning of their collaboration, Liao took the role of the director, arranging and posing Moro, so that together they challenge traditional heterosexual roles. For fourteen years now, Liao and Moro have continued to explore ideas of control, dominance, gender, and sexuality through photography.

A reception and musical performance by PIMO, the Brooklyn-based music and art collective featuring Pixy Liao and Takahiro Morooka, will be held on Thursday, February 3, at 6 p.m. in the Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery. Signed copies of her exhibition catalog, Contact Sheet 215, will be available after the talk.”

Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery
316 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244

Location: New York, Syracuse Type: Exhibition

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