Queer Australian Art and KINK acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of the lands and waters of this continent. KINK conducts its work on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation in Naarm Melbourne, the Turrbal and Jagera peoples in Meanjin Brisbane and the Gadigal lands of the Eora Nation, Sydney. We pay respect to elders past, present, and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.

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You are here too by Kink, published 21.03.2025

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Alexis Kanatsios

He/Him
Born in Naarm (Melbourne), Victoria, Australia.
Alexis Kanatsios, ‘Behaviour d, 2,’ 2023, wooden board, hinge, bolts, 110.5 x 50.5 cm. Exhibited in 'Sex with Men,' 2023, TCB Gallery, Melbourne
Image courtesy of the artist.

Bio

Alexis Kanatsios (b.1999) is a Melbourne-based artist. The ‘object’ figures as a core component in Kanatsios’ practice. Through a number of sculptural and drawing processes, Kanatsios utilises a unique and intuitively derived visual language to explore relationships between form and image. Kanatsios’ work blurs the line between representation and abstraction, appearing at once recognisable and uncanny. Engaging with the aesthetics of design, art history and ‘the everyday’ as tools to navigate curiosity, Kanatsios defines relationships between ‘object’ and audience, creating new contexts for the everyday and fantastical to become increasingly ambiguous.

Recent solo/two-person exhibitions include: ‘Neuro’ (2024) with John Meade, Cathedral Cabinet, Melbourne; Cache (2024), Melbourne; ‘Sex with Men’ (2023), TCB, Melbourne; ‘Temperament’ (2023), Asbestos, Melbourne; ‘Reception’ (2023) with Aden Miller, Bossy’s Gallery, Melbourne. Selected group exhibitions include: ‘Container’ (2023), Final Hot Desert, London; ‘Heavens’ (2023), Al Fresco, Canberra; ‘Farr St ‘(2023), Minerva, Sydney; ‘More Love’ (2022), Asbestos, Melbourne.

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Naarm (Melbourne), Victoria, Australia
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