Exhalation by Alexander Ekholm review: queer, up close and suffused with calm joy

How refreshing, then, to encounter personal art away from the sterile confines of frames on a painted wall. Ekholm, who trained in industrial design before exploring photography, has engineered a hanging system that suspends each image on tension wires and clips. They appear suspended in the space like prints in a dark room, a cheeky pun on the photography-free spaces that queer clubs build for attendees to let loose in. The industrial setting, with its concrete and steel surfaces, contrasts perfectly with the soft human bodies shot nude on rumpled bed sheets or veiled in gauzy pastel fabric.

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