September 18 2016, 1:04 p.m.
This immediacy is palpable within the walls of the Rubber Factory, where Zelony-Mindell successfully provides a new visual vocabulary for understanding queerness through the works of Ellen Carey, Thomas Albdorf, and Pacifico Silano, among others. Though he has long felt the need for new representations of LGBTQ identities, Orlando incited this grappling anew, Zelony-Mindell explains.
“It became crucial to assert the humanity inherent in queer identity,” he said.
Top photo: A photograph from “The African Queens” series, by Namsa Leuba.