Unbound Anthologies
Two-person exhibition, Ayo & Katrina Niebergal co-presented with project space at7.
5 March — 5 April 2021
Read the exhibition text as a .PDF here.
As per current government regulations, visits are limited to one visitor per day, every day, from 5 March to 5 April 2021. You can book a date to visit the exhibition in the link below. If you plan to visit the exhibition, please wear a face mask. You will be in the gallery space alone with the windows open for the duration of your stay, to ensure the safety of both you and your host.
Available & The Rat thanks Alex Iezzi for their support in the preparation of this exhibition.
About the typeface
The typeface used for this poster is by designer Nat Pyper. They have an ongoing series called A Queer Year of Love Letters, a collection of typefaces sourced from countercultural queer communities. In their words, "The series aims to make the act of remembering these overlooked and illegitimate histories accessible to other people, as easy as typing. Better yet: it aims to make the act of typing an act of remembering. That these fonts might be considered typefaces is incidental. They are an attempt to improvise a clandestine lineage, an aspatial and atemporal kind of queer kinship, through the act of writing."
The typeface in the poster is from a collective called the Women's Car Repair Collective, which was a collective run by the Lesbian Alliance of St. Louis, Missouri in the early 1970's that offered repairs of foreign and American cars, workshops, and rental of garage space, books, and tools.
We thought Pyper's gesture of collecting and designing as an act of remembering and creating new lineages resonates with both Ayo and Niebergal's practices, in the ways they are thinking of histories and storytelling.
You can see and request files of typefaces in this series on Open Stacks here.