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This exhibition marks the first dedicated presentation of Canadian artist G.B. Jones’s work in France, and the first to focus on her films, a less known yet vital strand of her wider oeuvre. Emerging from Toronto’s 1980s underground scene, Jones first came to prominence as a member of the all women post-punk band Fifth Column before expanding her practice to include zine-making, drawing, and filmmaking.
As a visual artist, Jones is best known for Tom Girls (1985), a series of drawings that reimagine Tom of Finland’s hypermasculine figures as boisterous, leather-clad women. Rooted in her ongoing interest in questioning and subverting power dynamics, these works were first published in J.D.s (1985–91), the zine she co-founded with Bruce LaBruce. By merging punk’s DIY ethos with a radical queer sensibility, J.D.s played a defining role in shaping the queercore movement.
Jones’s films extend these concerns to the moving image form. They function both as tools of dissent and proposition,…
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This exhibition marks the first dedicated presentation of Canadian artist G.B. Jones’s work in France, and the first to focus on her films, a less known yet vital strand of her wider oeuvre. Emerging from Toronto’s 1980s underground scene, Jones first came to prominence as a member of the all women post-punk band Fifth Column before expanding her practice to include zine-making, drawing, and filmmaking.
As a visual artist, Jones is best known for Tom Girls (1985), a series of drawings that reimagine Tom of Finland’s hypermasculine figures as boisterous, leather-clad women. Rooted in her ongoing interest in questioning and subverting power dynamics, these works were first published in J.D.s (1985–91), the zine she co-founded with Bruce LaBruce. By merging punk’s DIY ethos with a radical queer sensibility, J.D.s played a defining role in shaping the queercore movement.
Jones’s films extend these concerns to the moving image form. They function both as tools of dissent and proposition,…
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