MEETING [THE] TEXT HALFWAY

EXEG[TH]ESIS DOCUMENTATION
SHOW: All PAST TEXT OBJECT TONGUES TOWERS SWEAT RETRIBUTION QUEER NEXT
ECCE HOMO (BEHOLD THE HOMO)
NORTHERN CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART//2025Ecce Homo (Behold the Homo) was exhibited in Queer Territory at the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art in 2025. Queer Territory was the first significant survey exhibition of queer contemporary art practice in the Northern Territory, bringing together around 20 artists whose work spans the 1990s to the present.

The work is a projected text piece made from digitally animated wax letters. Each letter was first produced physically using stencilled graphite-infused wax on paper, then filmed as it melted under heat. These melting letters were edited, inverted, and reassembled digitally into words and poetic fragments that appear in silvery light before dissolving back into darkness.

The title draws on Ecce Homo — “Behold the Man” — from the Gospel of John, and queers it as Behold the Homo. Projected onto a wall, the work also recalls the biblical image of mysterious writing appearing on a surface before it can be understood. Here, text behaves like flesh, wax, light, and residue: it appears, is read, begins to fail, and returns as trace.
©2025I acknowledge The Larrakia People who are the First Peoples and Traditional Custodians of this land and pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty of Country was never ceded.