Bruce LaBruce
The Haus of Bruce LaBruce
2017
Gallery 46, London / The Glory / Dalston Superstore
Curator | exhibition, with Andrew Ellerby
Producer | exhibition, with Andrew Ellerby
Commissioned by Arts Council England Project Grants, And What? Queer Arts Festival
All copyright Bruce LaBruce
Installation images by Jonathan Bassett
The first UK solo show by Bruce LaBruce, the Canadian underground adult film director, photographer, performer, writer and queer provocateur, The Haus of Bruce LaBruce leads with the world-premiere of unseen photo series and creative responses by artistic partners.
Drawing upon the likes of dungeon mistresses in Los Angeles, the banned-in-Spain Obscenity series combining religious and sexual ecstasy, and gore-splattered gonzo motel shoots. Including exclusive collaborations with Rossy De Palma, Danni Daniels and François Sagat, to jewellery by Jonathan Johnson, collages by Damien Blottière and portraiture from LaBruce’s feature film The Misandrists, featuring recurring muse Susanne Sachße and performance icon Kembra Pfahler.
Selected archival content draws upon such cult adult classics as No Skin Off My Ass (1991), Hustler White (1996), Otto; or, Up With Dead People (2008) and L.A. Zombie (2010), featuring Ron Athey, Tony Ward and a stable of LaBrucian reprobates.
Presented in the intimate, labyrinthine warren of Gallery 46 – two stripped Georgian terraces spanning 3 floors and 8 rooms in Whitechapel, London, a programme of special events features a responsive live art series, screening of rare short films, artist Q&A.
The exhibition was accompanied by a limited edition publication and compilation of the cult queercore fanzine, J.D.s, a collaboration between G.B. Jones and Bruce LaBruce that ran for 8 issues from 1985 to 1981, restricted to 100 copies.
