K.R. FOWLER
Queer Iconography for Modern Apostasy
Queer Iconography for Modern Apostasy, 2022 ,acrylic on loose canvas, 302.5” x 100”
“I spent a lot of this summer fighting this piece, trying to wrangle control of something that felt beyond my capacity a lot of the time. now at the other side of it, I feel such a momentum from everything I’ve learned from this experience, and such satisfaction from how it has turned out.”
- k.r.fowler
Queer Iconography for Modern Apostasy is a large scale triptych that features a radicalized divine canon, taking from the symbols, icons, and figures common to various religions and myths and reinterpreting them through a queer feminist lens. This triptych is 9 feet tall and each panel approximately 10 feet wide, with the combined works guiding viewers through a paracosmic world where evolution, feminism, and queerness define the divine and challenge our preconceived notions of life and religion and where they intersect.
The work of K. R. Fowler functions as an exploration of identity and the concept of self within the broader context of culture and lived experiences. Endlessly enamored with learning, Fowler’s practice is informed by the ongoing research and study of religion, feminism, philosophy, history, and beyond. This research often manifests by relating the figure, the most frequent subject in their work, to symbolic or mythological iconography and narratives that are then recontextualized through a contemporary intersectional lens.
