Murky Waters expands from the diffuse social and spatial negotiations in which the queer body moves through. The works in this exhibition emerge from complex relationships between the body—perceived as both holy and profane—and water, along with bodily fluids. Here, liquids become powerful metaphors symbolising the urgency to dissolve divisions and dismantle discrimination by transforming these spaces into acts of love.

The exhibition embraces ‘turning liquid’, a flowing body that, uncontainable, is fragmented to realise itself, countering power systems with poetry where they seek to dominate with violence. Murky Waters resists notions of purity by creating a space for what the hygienic imagination aims to suppress: the monstrous, the animal, the dark, the foreign, the feminine and the queer.

Through an underground journey—which goes through bodies, reservoirs, drainage systems and water leaks—the exhibition invites us to feel the digestive and respiratory rhythms of the water within us. In an act of visceral affirmation, Zenha leads us underground, to the throat, revealing the monster that speaks, the monster that feels.