Suitor is Coady Brown’s third solo exhibition, focusing on the rituals of romantic pursuit through emotionally charged scenes of anticipation and longing. The exhibition represents figures in transitional spaces such as bedrooms and bars, capturing their vulnerability. The term 'suitor' reflects a fluid presence rather than a fixed role, suggesting pursuit as a metaphor for both romantic longing and the artistic process. Gender is depicted as mutable and performative, with clothing acting as a significant element that reveals and conceals, challenging traditional interpretations of masculinity.
In Suitor, Brown examines the emotionally complex rituals of romantic pursuit, focusing on figures caught in moments of anticipation, reflection, and longing.
Through gesture, atmosphere, and symbolic detail, Brown creates intimate compositions that reflect the quiet choreography of courtship, where desire, rejection, and self-discovery coexist in fragile tension.
Masculinity in Suitor is approached as a broader, constructed language, one that can be adopted, stretched, or softened, emphasizing the mutable and performative aspects of gender.
Brown underscores clothing as both concealment and revelation, with suits and layered garments allowing figures to shift between strength and softness, authority and intimacy.
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