Marked for Unbelonging
By Lindsey Weber
Jun 26th – Aug 20th
“Marked for Unbelonging and Feed explore the ways identity, memory, and power are constructed through systems of symbolism—be they digital, ecological, or agricultural.”
-Lindsey Weber
Marked for Unbelonging explores the collision of digital symbolism, natural science, and identity politics. The work layers imagery drawn from Bruce Bagemihl’s Biological Exuberance—a seminal text documenting same-sex behavior in animals—with superimposed pride flags, anti-pride symbols, and online rhetoric. These layered compositions function as a kind of visual archive, chronicling the internet’s role in shaping how queerness is both expressed and attacked.
Feed examines the psychological toll of subsistence farming and the unraveling of a domestic partnership through a series of large-scale vignettes composed as fractured grids. Each panel depicts crops and foraged goods from the artist’s own farm, drawing on the visual language of Dutch vanitas paintings to explore themes of loss, labor, and impermanence. The fragmented structure mirrors the disjointed nature of traumatic memory, while also referencing social media feeds—their endless consumption, curated domesticity, and romanticization of food production. By physically breaking up and reassembling the imagery, the artist processes personal upheaval and challenges idealized narratives of rural life.
Together, these works push back against rigid systems—biological, ideological, and domestic—and make space for messier, more honest ways of belonging.