Something Like Us | Held in Passing

Something Like Us / Held in Passing, explores the studio as a queer ecology - an affective and spatial site where desire, performance, and intimacy converge under the conditions of contemporary capitalism and institutional oversight. Drawing connections between physical cruising spaces and digital platforms like Grindr, it examines how queer encounters are mediated, coded, and choreographed through gestures, anticipation, and ethical restraint. The home studio emerges as a liminal environment where intimacy is both enacted and deferred, charged by the possibility of touch and the haunting of its inhibition. The home-studio performs as an ephemeral queer world: simultaneously private and public, intimate and performative, ethical and desiring. It stages a fragile commerce of presence and absence, where longing circulates, where touch is both promise and withdrawal, and where the photograph registers what is felt but cannot be fully possessed. The work becomes an archive of queer potentiality, capturing not resolution but the lingering trace of encounter - something like us, held in passing.