CAN THE MONSTER SPEAK?
Sharan Bala, Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, G. Gamel, Hudinilson Jr., Dae Uk Kim, Xie Lei, Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner, Clémence Lollia Hilaire, Luiz Roque
6 December 2025 – 22 February 2026
RADIUS CCA
Delft
The Netherlands
Through the work of eleven artists, CAN THE MONSTER SPEAK? examines the historical, scientific, and cultural construct of queerness as monstrous and explores monstrosity as an emancipatory and desirable political aspiration. By embodying notions of transformation, ambiguity, and deviancy, monsters upset constructs like race, gender, purity, and beauty, and thus represent a transgression of the norms that make up the dominant cisgender, binary, patriarchal, heterosexual, and white system of power. At the same time, monsters are necessary to define what is considered “normal” by contrast and exclusion. This exhibition unpacks this duality and explores different embodiments, affects, and considerations of monstrosity as a tool of resistance, a mode of becoming, and a political position. In doing so, it advocates for ecologies beyond binaries, beyond the human, and beyond the constraints of gender, sex, and identity as enforced by Capitalism. In other words, a way of inhabiting the Earth around the celebration of difference, where monstrosity is a radical refusal to normativity, and where queerness is the relentless practice of freedom within systems not meant to be surpassed.
Photography by Gunnar Meier, courtesy of RADIUS.
The work of Hudinilson Jr., Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Xie Lei, and Luiz Roque has been facilitated by Galerie Eric Mouchet, Marcelle Alix and Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS, Sies + Höke, and Mendes Wood DM, respectively. The work of G. Gamel has been loaned from Fonds Kervahut—Collection Laurent Fiévet, via Tlön Projects.