As part of his residency at SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Beau Gomez will develop an artistic project titled Best-Before, an image-based series that investigates modes of desire, disclosure and otherness. This work questions conditioned forms of scrutiny and self-possession, and in turn, reframes a counternarrative to personal and public uncertainties and repercussions surrounding disclosure.

 

Throughout the residency, the artist will work with still images, personal archives, texts, and audiovisual fragments to deepen an intimate and political reflection on the lived realities of HIV, outside dominant medical narratives. He will continue a body of work initiated in recent years that seeks to move away from stigmatizing or sanitized portrayals of the illness, and instead infuse it with an aesthetic of tenderness, care, and living memory.

 

Through video and archival materials, the artist will explore the tensions between intimacy and exposure, between silence and transmission, while highlighting the cultural and identity-based issues that shape his lived experience.

 

The artist will carry out his research and experimentation with the technical support of our partners at Atelier CLARK, Vidéographe, and OBORO.