Visual Art

Your one & only

Your one & only uses the iconography of the white pony to signify inaccessibility and myth drawing reference to queer dance culture, christianity, mysticism, and transcendent states to shatter the barrier of queerness and organized religion. Our intention is to realize a white pony in a life-size sculptural form, using fabric to best suspend viewers disbelief of what they are seeing.

Presented in partnership with the Marion Nicoll Gallery.


ARTISTS
Skylar Eyre and Gabby Coates

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Skylar Eyre and Gabby Coates are interdisciplinary artists based on Treaty 7 Territory in the Southern Alberta region. Their collaborative practice focuses on queering their surroundings, drawing on iconography of the religious institution, collapsing the boundaries between the church and dance culture — particularly the gay male disco circuit that gained rapid-fire popularization and faced an imminent death in the early 1980s. Drawing on gospels, hymns, dancing,and ideas of worship, Eyre and Coates remove the boundary between religion and queerness while finding common ground between these two groups in humour and transcendence.