RIDIKKULUZ, 2025.
2025 QUEER|ART Visual Art Fellows x New York Queer Zine Fair
Featuring RIDIKKULUZ, Francheska Alcántara, and Nathan Storey
Bundle of 3 archival pigment prints on watercolor paper
Limited-edition
5 by 7 inches, deckled edges
RIDIKKULUZ
How to Avoid Getting Thrown Off Roofs (2025) — a painting based on an interview with a gay IDF soldier recounting his time during the Lebanon War, in which a fellow soldier describes watching two Arab men having sex “like real animals” before shooting one in the head, calling it “pretty funny.” The menacing glee of the Hellhound’s discovery conveys an all-too-relatable experience of queer Arab existence in a world where one’s life is treated as a cruel joke, delivered with a mocking sneer that feels chillingly familiar.
Francheska Alcántara
QUEER: CRUISING THE HORIZON — from their Diaspo Rica project. This print celebrates queerness as an intergenerational tool of liberation: a way to imagine, build, and live futures beyond borders.
Nathan Storey
Imagine His Joy as the Sun — a laserprint collage whose title is drawn from Samuel R. Delany’s The Motion of Light and Water. The work reimagines queer archives from 1969–1995, with a focus on how printed matter and ephemera functioned as vessels of desire, memory, and collective survival during the AIDS crisis. Rooted in the idea of queer materials in queer hands, the piece embraces the possibility of reimagination as a means of carrying these fragments into the future.