(not) hiding is a realization of a possible queer utopia; a community where there is no label for who desires whom. Resisting a world so dedicated to maintaining a heterosexual framework for fear of the unknown, the queer friends and strangers in these photographs are protected by the artist’s body, in all its softness, hardness, and glimmer, within their imperfections and folds. These portraits lay carefully nestled in this fabric, which references the materiality of queer spaces; pride parades, drag shows, gay bars, etc. The satin drapes hide parts of the photos and in doing so, frame the work. This alternative framing can be understood as an attempt at restructuring how we come to view portraiture as inherently fraught in its play at representation. This show is a purgatory, a place before full visibility, and before the dangers that come with it. Queerness flows effortfully between resistance and submission, withholding and laying bare, protecting and being protected, leaning on and supporting.