Upcoming:
Playing Pretty
Rosemary Engstrom
Opening: October 8th
Closing: November 5th
Artist Statement:
My work explores queerness through bodies and objects that refuse to remain fixed.
Using photography, performance, and constructed still life, I approach the body as something porous and mutable—something that can be adorned, pierced, coated, exaggerated, and remade.
Fluids and artificial surfaces run throughout the work. Paint becomes skin, food becomes flesh, and ordinary objects take on bodily qualities. I’m drawn to the tension between attraction and repulsion, to the point where something seductive becomes
uncomfortable. Humor and absurdity are central to this tension. They allow me to approach the body with irreverence and curiosity, while creating images that can be funny, unsettling, and desirable at once.
As a queer nonbinary artist, I’m interested in gender as something we construct rather than something we uncover. I use the body as a place to play with that construction, pushing familiar ideas of beauty and desire until they begin to break down. I’m interested in the possibilities that emerge from this instability, where the body can transform without resolving into a single definition.
About
Flow Space was created from a deep love for the arts and a commitment to community.
More than a gallery, Flow Space is a community rooted art space, dedicated to showcasing the powerful, personal, and political works of artists who may exist outside traditional structures of recognition, self-taught visionaries, and those forging paths on their terms. With a particular focus on supporting women-identifying and LGBTQIA+ artists, Flow Space seeks to make room for those too often overlooked and to affirm the importance of their voices.
Flow Space extends beyond the confines of visual art, aiming to be a platform for lived experience, storytelling, and unapologetic self-expression in all its forms. Here, there is no expectation to explain or conform. We believe in art without censorship, identity without compromise, and community without judgment.
