Rirkrit Tiravanija
June 27 - October 19, 2025 | The Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University Lenfest Center of the Arts
Curated by Rattanamol Singh Johal, Homage: Queer Lineages on Video presents works by seven contemporary artists selected from the Akeroyd Collection who use moving images to pay tribute to cultural figures and histories that have been formative, if often (but not always) overlooked.
The works in the exhibition, all made over the last two decades, explore how lens- and time-based media have enabled artists to articulate desiring and melancholic modes of relationality across generations.
Intervening in commemorative genres of image making—including portraiture and documentary—through performative acts, selective appropriation, and imaginative staging, these works produce and problematize queer forms of kinship.
Artists in the exhibition include Dineo Seshee Bopape, Tony Cokes, Carolyn Lazard, Kang Seung Lee, P. Staff, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.