end_notes 9: BOY BOX, is a 106-page, color publication with an essay by BOY BOX curator Angela Conant, an intro by Dylan Gauthier, photography by @metametametallc, based on the series design by Partner & Partners. The book is available for purchase via print on demand or download below.

Published August 2021.

A digital copy of the publication can be downloaded as a PDF.

Physical copies will be shipped by USPS.

For the purposes of this exhibition, masculinity is defined as a constructed and perceived set of traits as evaluated by a cis-dominated, colonized Western culture, in which masculinity is imposed from external perspectives, and translated into individual performances across the gender spectrum. BOY BOX optimistically proposes broader access to the joys and benefits of fluid, detachable masculine traits. The exhibition is not an astigmatic celebration of maleness, but rather a deconstruction of masculinity’s history of power, and a rejection of its stigma, one that has fueled racism and the marginalization of people who do not conform to binary constructions of gender. Addressing the hypocrisy of a masculine archetype that, in Western culture, is reserved for white cis-male people, this exhibition aims to complicate and bend masculinity across intersections of identity. To those ends, BOY BOX brings the fragility and preciousness of masculinity down to earth, catching it as it falls from its cultural pedestal. On view are artworks that address masculinity’s myriad iterations, frustrating ideas of gender, the male sex, and toxicity.

Artists:

Jared Buckhiester
CAConrad
Deborah Czeresko
Karen Yvonne Hall
BB Kenda
Rose Nestler
Sarada Rauch
Marion Scemama and David Wojnarowicz
Vincent Tiley
Christopher Udemezue
Angela Washko

Curated by: Angela Conant