Talking To Ourselves And Other Faggots

Talking to Ourselves and Other Faggots rests on the foundation of a loving friendship and long-standing dialogue between the artists and their work. The two-person exhibition is shaped around an eponymous chain work crafted in collaboration. Over the span of more than a year the artists sat opposite each other twice a week connecting an ever-growing chain; the repetitive labor of shaping links and soldering them one to another produced stability and comfort in a time defined by disconnection and bleak prospects for the future.

The making of Talking To Ourselves and Other Faggots provided discussion, gossip, consolation, laughter, rumination, critique and support and became an act of connectivity and of continuity. The collaborative chain serves as a device linking individual works by Pozniakow and Billeter. Starting from autobiographic material and looking at reminiscence, the shaping of identity, love, sex and longings, both artists’ practices use modes of enshrining memory. In TTOAOF these modes result in keepsakes that take the form of ablated glass drawings, chain mail, pressed flowers, wire drawing in fused glass, digital paintings fired on vitreous enamel and watercolours encased in cast objects.

The exhibition is accompanied by a text written by Will Ballantyne-Reid.