6/1/2023 0 Comments Valencia by michelle tea![]() I costume my own queer leisure time in vintage nighties too sheer to wear around company, and with my own candy bar I join my partner before a screen that flashes with the real-life horrors some humans inflict upon others. My trans husband does this too - no shirt, a pair of underwear snug on his butt, tattoos akimbo, a candy bar in one hand as his other pulls up a true-crime show on Investigation Discovery. The painting ( Dateline, 2022), included in Rooms and Other Feelings, her recent exhibition at OCHI Projects in Los Angeles, depicts the artist’s figure, shirtless and in a pair of boxers, reclining with a giant wedge of watermelon, the point of a tattooed blade pointing toward her liberated belly button.Īli Liebegott. ![]() HOW DOES IT feel to stretch out in the privacy of your own room - whatever that looks like for you and your queer body - a snack on your lap, pants off, a murder show on the TV? In what I am calling out as artist Ali Liebegott’s queer self-portrait (aren’t they all, though?), she’s watching an episode of Dateline in bed. ![]()
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