TENDER LIKE A BRUISE
Eli Nolet and Ardyn Gibbs
On View at Hamilton Artists Inc. in Hamilton, ON from April 4 – May 17, 2025
Read the exhibition essay by Adrien Crossman here
TENDER LIKE A BRUISE is a collaborative exhibition featuring Eli Nolet and Ardyn Gibbs, two Hamilton-based emerging queer and trans artists whose practices investigate queer affect through new media and material explorations. Engaging with the tensions of how a bruise can be the outcome of both pain and pleasure in relation to queerness, the exhibition seeks to explore the nuanced politics of the queer body and visibility through a lens of relationality and T4T* care.
*T4T meaning “trans 4 trans” – used here to refer to a shared understanding and relation to fellow trans people in our lives in which a reciprocal exchange of love, knowledge, and care takes place.
