As a Queer, multidisciplinary artist, Andy Chitty's practice considers different subjectivities to create work that speaks against popular hierarchies and common opinion. These dynamics are often relational through the formal application of familiar objects and iconography, which creates a playful space where common cultural logics can be disrupted. By uniting these popular elements through techniques of sculpture and installation, Chitty’s practice focuses on deconstructing notions of gender, identity, and queer subjectivities, while calling attention to these subjects through relational forms and expressions. Often, the audience is encouraged to participate with the work in cheeky, and sometimes distressing forms of engagement. This may require the audience to handle an element of the work in order to enable its meaning and connect with it at their subjective level. In doing so, it asks the viewer to consider their own relationships with social hierarchies and alternative bodies within the ever-shifting conditions of the human experience. 

 

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