Mishka Colombo
Region: MFA Annual
City / State: Baltimore, MD
The notion of liminality can be used to describe a uniquely
queer experience. Transition simultaneously participates in and
departs from the ritual of gender adherence. If stasis reflects
the norm, movement necessarily acts as disruptor. Re-entry into
the social order on the opposite side of the binary could well go
unrecognized, with or without intent, as actively initiated change.
Equally legitimate is the possibility of comfortably occupying
a space between states. My work transmits from that place in
between. It’s at home in ambiguity. By queering viewer proximity
to whos, whats, whys, and hows, the work urges self-implication
in those questions, ultimately conveying consciousness of an
individual, queer-lived experience. There is nuance in trans*
identity. There is complexity and fluidity. There is a whole person.