made jagged plays off and re-appropriates language and tropes which have been systematically employed in the monsterisation of ‘the other’, employing a queer sensibility of transmogrification and vandalism, to locate corrupted histories and project a wild and vengeful blueprint for betraying binaries.

The premise of the work accepts Medusa as a mythological queer icon and launching point for collaborative and accumulative queered resistance and rebellion. Considering how queer deities might be considered by a collective/community of queer consciousness?

Zamara is a sculpturally and performatively grounded installation artist. Their practice engages with the formation of, and resistance in, identity. Looking to how non-traditional modes of communication and composition can be located to highlight the un-liveability of social structures and to preserve space for disruption within the mundane.

Recently their focus has been an evolving series of projects toying with how re-appropriation can create space for subversive methods of use and organisation. Meddling with religious/mythological iconographies and patriarchal devices, transforming them into articles of rebellion, to deconstruct how we consider and use bodies socially and politically. Pursuing the fabrication of new queered iconography and propaganda, through which non-dominant histories may be located and alternate futures may be performed.