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Shan Kelley

b.1977

Shan Kelley (b.1977) Was raised amidst the prairie backdrop of Alberta, Canada. He can sometimes be found living in Montréal.

From Here
From There
Tangles
A House On Your Plague
Still Bloody Positive
Bloody Positive
With Curators Like These, Who Needs A Cure
Wish
Myself
Of Hope and Sickness
I Wish I had my Mother's Gaze
Still Life
Self Portrait
Copula
Together Forever
Mostly Blanks
Rebound
Postcard
Postcard - i
Postcards - ii
Disclosures I
Disclosures II
Disclosures III
Disclosures IV
Disclosures V
Disclosures VI
What Remains
The Less You Know About Me The Safer I Feel
Photo taken by José (Pasivo) who likes reading encyclopædia and lives nearby
Photo taken by an aggressive man who was riding a red motorcycle
We've Come Such A Long Way To Get Here
From a Place In Me Still Unbroken
From a Place In Me Broken Still
Lovely Dust
It Seems Altogether Pathetic That Life Might Actually End For A Creature That Can Not (Return Upright)
Chasing The Horizon
Unclean and Friendly
Unclean and Friendly II
Remember the Good Times
Growing Concern
Make a Wish
Counting Everyday
There's not a day that comes between us
I see in you reflection of a million stars that pierced and filled me of countless ways to dream and feel complete
All it took to break the tension was that first physical contact. From that moment on, we both understood, everything is mutual.
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I’m a visual artist who melds autobiography, documentary research, writing, painting, and photography to construct uncanny visual works across a range of different mediums. This interdisciplinary practice has roots in my involvement within social justice movements, and lived experience as a queer identifed, HIV+ father. My projects constitute an autoethnographic study of AIDS and queer sexuality as they explore the nuance of personal narratives, and the relationships between larger social, political, and historical contexts. Wordplay and text have been foundational in my approach to creating work with themes that are most often only implicit, and opaque enough to encourage room for different readings. I’m inspired to scrutinize and question the manner in which relationships to self, intimacy, identity, mortality, health, and body, are deconstructed, created, and curated using objects, activities, and behaviours that speak to the everyday.



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