The Apollo Queer Art collective is an international ensemble of queer visual artists working in varying mediums who have come together to create contemporary queer art inspired by the Greek god Apollo. Building on the rich cultural significance of Apollo and his association with homosexual aesthetics, they offer a modern perspective of Apollo’s story as an analogy for our own lived experiences.Each artist chose a color of the LGBTQ+ flag to use not only as a prominent color to depict our art work, but also to draw inspiration from the associations of that color. We then reflected on our own experiences and the story of Apollo, to find a connection that inspires an artwork.
When this collective was founded in 2021, we chose the Olympian deity of Apollo from classical Greek and Roman mythology as he is considered the Patron of the arts, is associated with male idealized beauty standards and has a history of intimate homosexual relationships. For this project we were interested to see the different interpretations and visual expressions that would arise from a group of artists that reside in different countries if we all used Apollo as protagonist.
If Homosexuality is more than just sex, then homosexual art is more than just images of sex.
(James M. Salslow, 1999)
Event Venue
166 Bulwer Road , 4001 Durban, South Africa, 166 Bulwer Rd, Berea, 4001, South Africa,Durban, KwaZulu-Natal