Lyónn Wolf is a visual artist, educator and writer whose work is shaped by economic necessity, engaging forms of recycling, thrift and ephemera resulting in soft modularity, wild archiving, and performative intervention, posing questions about value, accumulation, and authorship.
ARTIST BIO
Lyónn has developed a trilogy of works since 2014 dealing with queer economies and spatial politics. The Re-appropriation of Sensuality, Sex in Public, and Domestic Optimism have been exhibited through various iterations at: The Project Arts Centre Dublin, The Grazer Kunstverein Graz, NCAD Gallery Dublin, DCA Dundee, District Berlin, Den Frie Center Of Contemporary Art Copenhagen, nGbK Berlin, Archive Kabinet Berlin, Survival Kit Festival Riga and De Appel, Amsterdam (upcoming 2022). Works from the series are held in the permanent collections of The Arts Council of Ireland and The Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Clothes for queer cruisers - Trans - Later -, 2022, Lyónn Wolf, Dimensions variable, customised, hand bleached, second hand denim jackets, machine embroidery, metal parts.
Above left: Domestic Optimism, 2020, Lyónn Wolf, Lesbian Flaneuring.
Sex in Public, Dyke Action, with Line Skywalker, Sex in Public, 2017, Lyónn Wolf, Karlström.
They see a cultural centring of thrift as part of a tradition of queer-working class vernacular and ethics, promiscuous and adept at working within limitations. Their pedagogical and publishing work posits the imagination as a political tool with radical potential that can exist and erupt anywhere and at any time.
Installation view of Domestic Optimism,2020, Lyónn Wolf, Grazer Kunstverein, - Photo credit: Christine Winkler
Lyónn’s work is often collaborative generating forms of temporary collectivity, intent on the erotic and energetic capacity of brief encounter. Their work occupies many sites, spaces and relations including exhibition, performance, filmmaking, publishing, writing, disruptive pedagogy, friendship and solidarity.
TITLE
Clothes for queer cruisers - Trans - Later
ARTIST
Lyónn Wolf
ABOUT THE WORK
Lyónn Wolf is a visual artist, educator and writer whose work is shaped by economic necessity, engaging forms of recycling, thrift and ephemera resulting in soft modularity, wild archiving, and performative intervention, posing questions about value, accumulation, and authorship. They see a cultural centring of thrift as part of a tradition of queer-working class vernacular and ethics, promiscuous and adept at working within limitations.
Trans - Later is a new work in edition as part of the on-going project Sex in Public. It is made in response to themes informing Outburst Queer Art Festival 2022. Embroidered onto customised second hand denim jackets sourced in Belfast, Trans - Later makes a nod to the creative processes involved when gender, sexuality, identity and cultural signifiers are woven together on our own terms, shifting the parameters of legibility. Trans - Later marks the body as a site of constant change, where we can re-write ourselves at any time.
DATE
2022
DIMENSIONS
Dimensions variable.
MEDIUM
Customised, hand bleached, second hand denim jackets, machine embroidery, metal parts
ORIGINAL WORK / EDITION
Edition of 3
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyónn Wolf is a visual artist, educator and writer whose work is shaped by economic necessity, engaging forms of recycling, thrift and ephemera resulting in soft modularity, wild archiving, and performative intervention, posing questions about value, accumulation, and authorship.
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Installation view of Domestic Optimism, 2021, Lyónn Wolf, Project Arts Centre - photo credit: Louis Haugh