Tender queers: Rene Matić and Clifford Prince King

"The image is the least important thing about what went on." Photographers Rene Matić and Clifford Prince King explore the risks and rewards of photography, lenses of love and connection, and the power of preserving community through imaging à la Nan Goldin and Catherine Opie, with host Gemma Rolls-Bentley.Clifford Prince King is an artist living and working in New York and Los Angeles. He documents his intimate relationships in traditional, everyday settings that speak on his experiences as a queer black man. In these instances, communion begins to morph into an offering of memory; it is how he honors and celebrates the reality of layered personhood. Within Clifford's images are nods to the beyond. Shared offerings to the past manifest in codes hidden in plain sight, known only to those who sit within a shared place of knowledge. Learn more about his practice at www.cliffordprinceking.com. Find him on IG at @cliffordprinceking.Rene Matić is a London-based artist and writer whose practice spans across photography, film, and sculpture, converging in a meeting place they describe as "rude(ness)" - an evidencing and honouring of the in-between. Rene draws inspiration from dance and music movements such as Northern soul, Ska, and 2-Tone as a tool to delve into the complex relationship between West Indian and white working-class culture in Britain, whilst privileging queer/ing intimacies, partnerships and pleasure as modes of survival. Learn more about their practice at www.renematic.com. Find them on IG at @rene.matic.A full transcript of the episode is available here.Rene's exhibition kiss them from me runs until December 9, 2023, at Chapter, NY. Their new commission Mid Land is on view at The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum as a part of Coventry Biennial 2023.Clifford's exhibition keep a place for me, with Ryan Patrick Krueger, is on view at Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY, through December 20, 2023.This podcast series is produced by the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. Dreaming of Home is on view September 7–January 7, 2024. Learn more about the show at leslielohman.org/exhibitions/dreaming-of-homeShow music: Fantasy Island Obsession by Tom Rasmussen ft. Kai-Isaiah Jamal Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.