You Get to Determine the Reality
Together, Alone
History Pieces
Responsibilities to Time I
Responsibilities to Time II
The Gay Agenda
The Weatherman
Deviations
Thoughts and Prayers
Road Head
Toro
POOFTA
1897-1991
River Torrens
Serious Queer Business
Passing
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Callum McGrath

Callum McGrath's exhibition You Get to Determine the Reality explores alternative constructions of queer history, culture and dissident queer figures through the lens of political ambivalence. Developed in conjunction with McGrath’s PhD at MADA, the exhibition features two new
works, William & John and How to Build the Future. Interrogating the mainstreaming, homogenisation and state sponsored sanitisation of queer history and culture McGrath asks; who constitutes the queer public? The exhibition blurs the boundaries between historical research and fiction, questioning how state agencies, systems of power and political ideologies control the authorship of historical representation. In obscuring his own political perspectives, You Get to Determine the Reality invites the viewer to make their own meaning of the past.


Callum McGrath, You Get to Determine the Reality, 2024, Installation Views, MADA Gallery, Melbourne. Images: Christian Capurro.