“What intrigues me most as I look and look and look again across this body of work, is that my looking is returned with astonishing alacrity. More than looking at one another within the frame, the protagonists confront and arouse the viewer and the photographer at once. At times their gaze is sidelong, knowing, mischievous, petulant, egging you on, and sometimes saying: “fuck it all and fuck me while you’re at it – well actually, in your dreams, honey!”
— kara lynch
a.r. havel is a multidisciplinary artist working in stage-craft, dance, photography, and film. He was born and raised in the subdued Catholic theatricality of San Antonio, Texas before trying to be an intellectual at Hampshire College in Massachusetts. His current research explores queer temporality as theorized by José Esteban Muñoz and Elizabeth Freeman by playfully investigating ideas of nostalgia and why queer people are so obsessed with archives. He made the ill-informed choice to get an MFA (from the University of New Mexico), which he is still ambivalent about completing.
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New Orleans, Louisiana