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Emilie L. Gossiaux's 'Other-Worlding' Solo Exhibition at Queens Museum Explores Interspecies Kinship

exhibition · 2026-04-20

Emilie L. Gossiaux, an artist from New York who became blind in 2010, is set to unveil her inaugural institutional solo exhibition, titled 'Other-Worlding', at the Queens Museum. This exhibition will commence later in 2023 and continue until 7 April 2024. Among the highlights is 'The Whitecane Maypole Dance' (2023), featuring life-sized sculptures of her guide dog, London, twirling with ribbons around a maypole that resembles her white cane. In Gossiaux's art, London represents interspecies relationships, a theme also explored in her work 'Dancing with London' (2021) at the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt. With a BFA from Cooper Union and an MFA from Yale, Gossiaux's focus on these connections has been shaped by her bond with London and literature such as Sunaura Taylor's 'Beasts of Burden' (2017).

Key facts

  • Emilie L. Gossiaux's solo exhibition 'Other-Worlding' opens at Queens Museum, New York, in 2023 and runs through 7 April 2024.
  • The exhibition features 'The Whitecane Maypole Dance' (2023), an installation with three lifesize sculptures of her guide dog London dancing on hindlegs.
  • Gossiaux lost her vision in 2010 and has worked with her guide dog London for over ten years, influencing her art on interspecies relationships.
  • Her work 'Dancing with London' (2021) was exhibited at Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt in 2021.
  • Gossiaux holds a BFA from Cooper Union, New York, and an MFA in sculpture from Yale, New Haven.
  • She cites Sunaura Taylor's book 'Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation' (2017) as an influence on her practice.
  • Gossiaux uses a Sensational Blackboard for drawing and works with clay, applying painterly techniques to sculpture.
  • Her art explores themes of empathy, freedom of movement, and anti-anthropocentric perspectives through human-animal hybrids.

Entities

Artists

  • Emilie L. Gossiaux
  • Kirby
  • Sunaura Taylor

Institutions

  • Queens Museum
  • Museum für Moderne Kunst
  • Cooper Union
  • Yale
  • The Paris Review
  • Platform
  • BLIND, Incorporated

Locations

  • New York
  • United States
  • Frankfurt
  • Germany
  • New Haven
  • Minneapolis
  • Minnesota
  • New Orleans
  • Louisiana

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