Queer London - Marc Vallée & Jack Scollard
Retramp Gallery, Berlin
Thursday 20 July - Sunday 23 July 2023
Marc Vallée’s 90s Archive: Volume One of queer 90s London will be exhibited alongside The Horny of Plenty by Jack Scollard. The two solo shows at the Retramp Gallery, Berlin seek to establish a dialogue between photographs that explore identity, youth and intimacy in the London LGBTQ+ community 25 years apart.
Register: Eventbrite.
Opening Times:
19:00 - 22:00, Thursday 20 July 2023.
15.00 - 20:00, Friday 21 July 2023.
15.00 - 20:00, Saturday 22 July 2023.
15.00 - 20:00, Sunday 23 July 2023.
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Reuterstrassse 62
12047 Berlin
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Poster design: Alexander Christie.
Marc Vallée - 90s Archive: Volume One
Join Marc Vallée for the Berlin launch of90s Archive: Volume One at the Retramp Gallery on Thursday 20 July 2023. Marc will be in conversation with Bad Gays co-author Ben Miller. The talk will be in English and a book signing will take place. An exhibition of prints from the book will also be presented.
List of works (PDF).
"The pictures are autobiographical; a window into Vallée’s life in 90s London. However, they have a wider historical and political significance, capturing queer youth as the gay community slowly emerged from the horror of the 80s and early-90s global AIDS epidemic..."
-British Journal of Photography, December, 2022.
“As a teenager of the 80s with Thatcher, AIDS and Clause 28 it’s not a surprise I ended up documenting my friends when I got to art school in the 90s...”
-DAZED Magazine, November, 2022.
Jack Scollard - The Horny of Plenty
Jack Scollard will present prints from their 110 page zineThe Horny of Plenty: a compilation of images taken in London over the space of 12 months released in April 2023. The zine is intended as a meditation, capturing the ceaseless intensity and boundless beauty of a city that never knows when to stop. Whether it’s sporadic snapshots in club cubicles, tender portraits at the lakes deep in the city’s outskirts or intimate moments during after parties, these vibrant shots testify to a quest for vitality and connection that followed two years of lockdowns.
“Dedicated to “anyone in London who showed me kindness… or their cock”, the 104-page zine captures the zeitgeist of the capital’s unrelenting pursuit of pleasure, while opening up conversations around queer people and our relationships with sex, stigma and addiction. Depicting intimate portraits of friendship, lovers and liaisons alike, Scollard creates a seductive sense of belonging in their photography, guiding the viewer to step inside club toilet cubicles with the promise of an unforgettable afterparty.”
-THE FACE, April, 2023.
Photo: Alexander Christie.
Marc Vallée (b.1968) is a London-based documentary photographer. His zines and photobooks are held in the collections of Tate Britain, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Museum of London, Martin Parr Foundation and Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) in Paris. Prints held in public and private collections including Museum of London.
Photo: Jordan Hearns
Jack Scollard (b.1997) is an Irish artist based in London. They graduated from a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art Printmaking with Critical Cultures at the National College of Art and Design in 2021. They are a co-founder of SMUT Press and are currently studying bespoke tailoring in London.
Photo: Florian Hetz.
Ben Miller is a writer and historian living in Berlin. With Huw Lemmey, he hosts Bad Gays, a podcast about evil and complicated queers in history, which has been downloaded nearly a million times; a book based on the show and passionately arguing for a more complex and political queer public history, Bad Gays: A Homosexual History, was published by Verso in 2022.