“What intrigues me most as I look and look and look again across this body of work, is that my looking is returned with astonishing alacrity. More than looking at one another within the frame, the protagonists confront and arouse the viewer and the photographer at once. At times their gaze is sidelong, knowing, mischievous, petulant, egging you on, and sometimes saying: “fuck it all and fuck me while you’re at it – well actually, in your dreams, honey!”
— kara lynch
a.r. havel is a multidisciplinary artist originally from San Antonio, Texas. There, in collaboration with radical theater ensemble Jump-Start performance Co. he learned a community-activated form of artistic practice. Before moving to New Orleans, he attended Hampshire College in Massachusetts. With an emphasis on set building and stage-craft, a.r. havel’s visual fantasies highlight the inherent pleasure, sacredness, filth, and camp performativity of queerness.
photo by Annie Flanagan
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New Orleans, Louisiana