Opening Reception: "For Play"

Wrestling, sparring, pretend and fantasy allows us to practice for the real world, a real world that asks individuals to engage in a social economy. In this social economy we sell the body as a product forever blurring the lines between consent, maturity, play and desire. Here we lose sight of individuality and fall into our roles. The part of the child, the man and the woman become intertwined in a pageant of desire. Toys and photographs engage us in never ending foreplay, forever wiring our brains to fulfill a predetermined destiny towards this inescapable narrative.

Join Philo Northrup and Kathryn Marie Hogan as they navigate the fine line between play and sex through object and image. In their show “For Play,” Philo & Kathryn tease out the paradox in our culture’s obsession with sex whilst asserting that you can grow up to be anything.