Closing Time — Flo Low

Flo Low is a British-Armenian artist, graphic designer, and art educator based in Brooklyn. They use printmaking and textile to explore the figures and landscapes of the past, how they shape us and how we shape them in response to loneliness and alienation. In their practice, they gather found fragments that give us a glimpse into the layered history around us, including city typography, which they have published as the NYC ABCs, and Armenian food history, published as Recipes from a Free Artsakh. Inspired by the children they work with, their ongoing project Bags for Life plays with form and function through designing and making single-purpose (but not single use) bags.

Closing Time (2019)
Cotton, embroidery, photography, video, terracotta, printed matter

My final project for the FdA Graphic Design degree show at Camberwell College of Arts. My central question that this piece was a response to was: where have all the queer spaces gone? What happens when the queer party ends at 3am? Where do we go?

Through interviews with queer and trans people projected onto an embroidered map of London, roughly onto where they took place, I explored how queerness is literally pushed out onto the margins of the city. I asked my interviewees: where is your queer space? What does that mean to you? This piece is indebted to José Esteban Muñoz’s work on queerness as a horizon that we aim towards.