Towards Entropy and Queer Futurity

Chester Dols

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 

PUTTY'S CORONATION is pleased to announce the opening of Towards Entropy and Queer Futurity, a solo exhibit of Chester Dols’s sculptures and wallpaper drawings at Trestle Studios, 62 18th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232 

“The cyborg does not dream of community on the model of the organic family, this time without the oedipal project. The cyborg would not recognize the Garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust.”

- Donna Haraway

The future is a garden imbued with potentiality. A garden dreamt up by an artist-alchemist where fluid identities are in constant motion, colliding like celestial bodies. 

This mysterious realm enmeshes evolutionary trajectories that are biological, social, and technological, challenging power structures in the service of a queer future. Conceiving of these subjects through the lens of expansive cosmic and virtual terrains opens the gate to the infinite, creating the impossibility of borders. 

 In his solo debut for Putty’s, Chester envisions a new kind of hybrid subject that appears to arise from a radically different type of Eden, one full of flux and potential. Inspired by spacecraft and rendered visions of interplanetary exploration, Chester contributes to the language of futurity by fusing objects associated with progress and innovation with those identified with the queer community. Drawing upon techniques used in contemporary architecture- 3D CAD renderings and prints- Chester undermines their utilitarian function. These cast resin objects serve as speculative models that provide a blueprint for a futuristic mythology. 

Chester Dols is a transdisciplinary designer and artist based in Brooklyn, NY. His current research focuses on development and investigation of gendered mediums, objects, and spaces. Chester identifies as a queer futurist, exploring queerness as not only a product of gender politics, but as an identity and a framework for a future that is multivalent, metamorphic, and essentially chimeric. Since queerness is always in tension with what is normative and conscious, queerness exists at the periphery of now, closer to the future.