LG NATUR #4: Feeling Queer

With Feeling Queer, the fourth edition of the LG Natur exhibition series brings together three different artistic positions for the first time. Starting from the provocative – and often marginalizing – statement "This is not natural!", the exhibited works move between performative gesture, media-reflective gaze and an autobiographical trace.

The artists Lilou Rey, Steve Beney and the duo Rubén Gil & Nathan Darbellay, who come from the canton of Valais, invite us to consciously rethink the idea of a natural order with their situated perspectives and resistant aesthetics. Her focus is on the identity, body and lived experiences of young people. They question concepts of the standardised human condition.

Tilde Chur thus opens up a space for the discourse of understanding naturalness as a purely socially produced narrative – a narrative that can be changed, expanded and rewritten.

Curated by Elena Hohl (Chur GR) and Lucie Arlettaz (Martigny VS).

Lilou Rey's series of works C'est dans sa nature addresses diversity, fluidity and self-determination as the original principles of the living – with a deliberately chosen tea set as a symbol of cross-generational conformity. Through fine paintings on ceramic objects, she makes queer forms of expression of nature visible and gives new meaning to everyday things.

Steve Beney's analogue photographs show powerful, intimate snapshots between man and nature. Nature appears as an equal actor – multifaceted, flexible and full of resonance with queer worlds of experience.

In their installation Mouche 1–3, Rubén Gil and Nathan Darbellay take a detail from public toilets as their starting point: the artificial fly in the urinal; as a typical example of so-called nudging, i.e. subtle behavioral control. Her playful, interactive work questions norms of masculinity, body and space.