Tulips: Kontext

In Tulips, artist duo Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, alongside writings by theorists and philosophers, map a terrain where they explore gestures of authority and obedience in the public space within the urban context of austerity, gentrification and policing.

The work of Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings (b. 1991 in Newcastle and 1991 in London, live and working in London) deals with the socio-cultural and political structures that reinforce conservatism and discriminatory practices within and around the LGBTQIA+ community. In their works the artist duo explores how the queer community’s safe spaces have been displaced by political strategies and how a history of femininity and the colonized body in the transition to capitalism is shaped by rationalization of social reproduction and ownership of the self.