The digital platform hoping to redefine 'queer' art

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If you're in the market for ghoulish ceramic heads or colorful collages of gay sex among off-duty soldiers, a new digital art platform has you covered.

and features dozens of pieces — from paintings to zines, photography to textile art — handpicked by its founders Tuna Erdem and Seda Ergul, and collaborator Mine Kaplangi.

"This is the moment when we first thought a commercial platform might create an alternative source of income to queer artists," Erdem and Ergul, who both identify as queer, told CNN in an email. With hyper-realistic silicone models of tongues, ears, and breasts jutting out of brass wires like bouquets, Radage's work, she explains, is about dismembering things to unpack what it means to be human, and dissect the intersection of neurodiversity and queerness."I love my work being in the flesh and people being in the same space and time," Radage told CNN."And also that is incredibly draining on resources, time, energy, money...

"It's fantastic having a safe space for queer people," Rolls-Bentley, who identifies as queer, said."But a space where people who don't identify as queer can come and celebrate and learn and share experiences with queer people is a really powerful thing that we need."But while Rolls-Bentley argues there is still merit in carving out space for queer artists in bigger museums, auction houses, and galleries," Erdem and Ergul have different priorities.

 

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