Join artist Paul Moreno and writer Adam Zmith in a discussion about poppers and queer culture in their respective work. The vapors that escape an open bottle of poppers recall the dark rooms where queerness both hid and thrived. The image of the bottle alludes to the dreamy eyes and relaxing bodies of men at play. That half empty bottle at the back of your nightstand connects you to a history of queers, leaving the dark room and marching in the streets. Paul and Adam will explore this connection between pleasure and political resistance, as well as their influences and ambitions as makers who are intent on inhaling life.

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Paul Moreno‘s solo exhibition Problem Areas is on view at the Bureau through February 27, 2022.

Adam Zmith is a writer. He was the recipient of the London Writers Award 2019-20, and is the author of several shortlisted and published short stories. He is also one of the producers of The Log Books podcast, winner of Gold in the Best New Podcast category at the British Podcast Awards 2020.

Paul Moreno is a self-taught artist who grew up in Sparks, Nevada. Paul studied Literature and Critical Thought at University of San Francisco and NYU. About the title, Problem Areas, Paul states “I took the title from the old adage that art-making is largely a process of problem solving. However, the title is also meaningful in that when I choose subjects for my work, I try to look at something that I have complex or unresolved feelings about. By spending time with the subject, against the background of parsing it into formal elements that serve the picture, I find spiritual resolution can also present itself. In this way, the problem, as it were, is not a negative, but an opportunity to expose the beauty in the subject to myself and hopefully the viewer.”