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JB Firestone
new commissions, queer practice, institutional critique

Recent Exhibitions / Programs
2022-2026
  1. When Honey Tastes Like Metal
    (Exile, anthropomorphism, propaganda)
  2. yachachiqniykunapaq
    3. (A self-organized repatriation)
  3. The Christmas Show
    4. (A holiday altar, a crime scene)
  4. Nothing Under Heaven
    5. (BDSM, god, and Andy Warhol)
  5. Clocking In, Clocking Out
    6. (erotics, e-bikes, ecstatics)
  6. The Backend
    (laws, logic, a lack thereof)
  7. Dancing on Axes and Spears
    (violence and veneration)
  8. Nesting
    9. (worldbuilding and wonder)
  9. Case Studies
    10. (a series of solo shows)

Writing 
2019-2025
  1. Baron Books

Performances
2019-2025
  1. Horizon Lies
  2. To Move Is To Remember

Select Exhibitions
2014 - 2021
  1. Earth In Peril
    2. (queer visions of the American West)
  2. Eco-Urgency
    3. (its now or never)
 
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1. When Honey Tastes Like Metal



Vanessa Gravenor, Paper Swallows Rock, 2021, 4K or HD, Stereo Sound, 16 min 44 seconds

When Honey Tastes Like Metal
Mona Hatoum, Vanessa Gravenor, Patty Chang, and Tanika Williams in conversation with Natalia Nakazawa and Shasha Dothan 

Curated by Jesse Bandler Firestone
AIR Gallery, March 8, 2026

      
A child learns to read against the backdrop of war. An infant coos. A porpoise dies. Letters are written.

When Honey Tastes Like Metal P is for Pomegranates, G is for Grenade, L is for Love. Within the exhibition, Dothan’s experience as the mother of a three-year-old grounds her ongoing consideration of violence and desensitization.

Mona Hatoum, Measures of Distance, 1988, Standard-definition video (color, sound), 15 min 26 seconds

Here, the artists approach related concerns from distinct vantage points, engaging ancestry, exile, anthropomorphism, and wartime propaganda. 

Tanika Williams, Genomic Memory, 2024, Digital transfer of film, 4 mins 22 seconds

Across the works, a central question emerges: what conditions shape our capacity for empathy and love—or its absence?

Patty Chang, We Are All Mothers, 2022, 4K or HD, Stereo Sound, 19 min 52 seconds
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