CHTHONIC CHORUS

This exhibition unfolds as an imagined archaeological site, where queer theory unsettles normative, binary views of the past. By activating queer archaeology, CHTHONIC CHORUS digs into layers of strata and memory to radically rethink and critique colonial constructs of place, language, time, gender, sexuality, identity, and ecological relations.

The chthonic—meaning "beneath the earth"—refers to spaces absent of light but far from void. These are fertile realms where darkness fosters ritual, transformation, and queer potential. The underground, both literal and metaphorical, is a place where the hidden is revealed, and the dormant awakened. Here, contemporary art reimagines the archive, disrupts linear timelines, and invokes connection with ancestors through physical and psychological terrain.

CHTHONIC CHORUS envisions this subterranean site as one for queer communion and reactivation, laden with long-standing narratives that surface latent images and conjure rhizomatic entanglements.

Curated by Jake Treacy.