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Brontez Purnell’s “Anti-Alter Ego” at Trotter & Sholer
“Cancel Me?!?!?!?!? LOL – HOW BITCH!?!?!?” captions one of the tamer works in Purnell’s debut art show, which is like stepping into an immersive version of a black-and-white Xeroxed punk zine. Purnell, an accomplished musician, choreographer, and writer, brings his riotous DIY sensibility to whatever medium he indulges in. “I try to claim femme but really I’m just horny and violent and often misunderstood” is scrawled in lipstick across a mirror in a color photograph self-portrait. There’s no nihilism in his anarchy.
Purnell combined his diverse creative talents for a performance on the opening night, which featured the artist writhing nude in a pile of paper. On July 6, a film component, 100 Boyfriends Mixtape (a companion to his transgressively hysterical 2022 novel 100 Boyfriends) will screen at Performance Space New York and is, expectedly, not for the feint of heart.
Brontez Purnell’s “Anti-Alter Ego” is on view until July 8 at Trotter & Sholer, 168 Suffolk Street, NY.
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