Michaela Yearwood-Dan @ Taiwani Contemporary

The Sweetest Taboo, is an exhibition by Michaela Yearwood-Dan, an artist who thinks about the priorities for affirming spaces of self and collective actualisation, specifically BIPOC and queer space(s), community needs and desires, including her own.

Projected and inscribed upon the large-scale paintings, are extracts of Yearwood-Dan’s experiences, influences, personal thoughts and questions, which commingle with abstracted and botanical gestures plus marks that border, lead towards and give way to speculative clearings; spaces and gaps that have the capacity to be filled with utopic imaginings. The works remain vested in holding and debating the real-life politics and cultural demands of femme, black and queer individuals in the world coming together as communities, manifesting and nurturing critical, safe and joyous environments.