Featuring works by David Mramor, Genevieve Waller, MG Bernard, Natalie Sharp, Steven Frost, Su Kaiden Cho, Kalyn Heffernan, & Venus Cruz.

As the Trinidadian-German singer Haddaway asks in his hit dance single, “What Is Love?,” artist-curators Genevieve Waller & MG Bernard complicate what is “right” & what is “wrong” about love via an exhibition of eight artists titled XOXO: Performance, Love, & Affection. They posit that love is a journey of radical self-actualization & argue that the medium of performance art is uniquely suited to speak love to power. 

Through the intentional artifice of performance, the artists in this exhibition reveal their greatest truths. They turn the tables on constructs of ableism, gender, organized religion, & sexuality while expressing what it means to be yourself & radically love yourself as an individual within the context of the United States. XOXO is a love letter to the artists, viewers, & all humans who want to be embraced as their most revolutionary & celebratory selves, & are embraced for who they are outside of normative hierarchies.