Oliver Doe explores queer communication through varying levels of coding and abstraction. Research into use of colour, gesture, and other non-verbal lexicons as coded languages for cruising or signaling identity is central to this work, as well as the queer possibilities of abstraction within verbal language. With these works they are investigating Queer Linguistics and its (de)construction; queer uses of existing language; and abstracted and queered modes of interpersonal (and societal) communication. Considering repetition, indexing, code-switching and citation as the building blocks of (queer) language, their works modulate and bend these foundations to highlight the mobility and malleability of language in queer use. Doe's recent research has been focused on linguistic abstraction as a performative mode that can both construct and deconstruct the possibilities of queer identity categories, communicating desire or identity beyond language as we expect it.
Friendzone
Exhibition n the studio of Koes Staassen at C3, Rotterdam, open during Rotterdam Art Week.
With works by: Ada M Patterson & Emmy Vollaard & Jon Rolph & Joran van Soest & Koes Staassen & Maike Hemmers & Marijke Appelman & Oliver Doe & Sebastian Haquin
APPRECIATION
Open Studios and exhibition featuring 90+ alumni and current students of Piet Zwart Institute's MFA programme.
The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily
Performance of 'pinkpinkpink'
This is Reality: And it was but a chat away
A real chat is hard to come by. Trust is in short supply. But trust is needed to get a chat going, and let it generate what may qualify as social reality. Reality is trembling. Where desire, grief, and power are at stake, many demons populate society, pulling people together and apart.
I Must Be Living Twice
This year, the Piet Zwart Institute Master Fine Arts traveled to Venice, Italy to visit the 59th Venice Biennale and participate in the exhibition “Personal Structures” organized by the European Cultural Centre and encompasses the work of international contemporary artists, art schools, and organizations. The works of current PZI MFA students will be on display at Palazzo Mora April 23rd until November 27th 2022. The MFA presents an exhibition within an exhibition curated by studio Shimmer.
Somewhere In Between
Newcastle-based artist Oliver Doe’s exhibition, ‘Somewhere In Between’, questions the way that we see queer people, turning this abstraction on its head in order to proudly demonstrate LGBTQ+ bodies as a defiant site of political and cultural difference. Queer erasure is rendered into boldly coloured minimalist paintings, defiantly present in the space, and yet containing a pervading sense of absence in their reduced forms.
Formations: Ellsworth Kelly, Albert Irvin, Oliver Doe & Josh Raz
In Formations, two giants of 20th Century abstract painting, Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) and Albert Irvin (1922-2015), collide with the work of young Newcastle-based painters Oliver Doe and Josh Raz in an exciting trans-historical exhibition that will explore how we see the modern world through painting and printmaking. It will also explore the influence of modernism on contemporary art, and how elusive views of our world can be rendered through bold colour and dynamic forms.