DUET

DUET is a collaborative exhibition by the photography duo Zac + JuJu, who collage their perspectives together to document the cutting edge of trans, queer, and drag performance in Brooklyn. Using disposable film cameras, Zac + JuJu have captured the same shows and performers from slightly different angles over countless nights at iconic spaces like All Night Skate. They have developed a process of collaging their adjacent photographs to form a third image, employing varied printing methods, mounting styles, and backing materials in order to build a new visual language between their lenses. Some of these images were taken on the same night, others, years apart; nevertheless, they coalesce together like notes in a score. Merging perspectives, Zac + JuJu's collages call authorship and identity into question, mirroring the collaborative, fluid nature of the trans and queer community itself. Inspired from the concept of world-making in queer theory, these collage-duets evolve from acts of resistance into tools of creation. This exhibition presents sixteen compositions that unite a diversity of bodies, identities, and perspectives to embody a collaged vision of queer joy. To accompany the artwork on display, Westlab + Gallery has published a limited edition book featuring a larger selection of collages from the body of work behind DUET.