Babe, yr my religion
Solo Exhibition
Curated by Lucas Cabral
Artspace, Peterborough, ON
September 12 – November 22, 2025
Babe, yr my religion explores the gay bar as sacred space. These sites of gathering, celebration, mourning, and protest hold vital importance within the histories of queer and trans socializing and political organizing, yet many of these brick-and-mortar institutions continue to be shuttered. Crossman engages in cross-generational dialogue through queer film, television, and canonical texts such as Leslie Feinberg’s 1993 book Stone Butch Blues - an autobiographical novel that deals with gender, class, queerphobia, transphobia, antisemitism, and police brutality in the last half of the 20th century. This solo exhibition consists of a new body of work by Crossman that pays homage to queer literature and media, and the often-precarious spaces that helped keep our histories alive, while simultaneously envisioning more inclusive liberatory futures.
The exhibition was accompanied by a text by curator and writer Dallas Fellini, the 2024 winner of the Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators.
The essay can be found here: https://freight.cargo.site/m/P2957671513633578907699140562876/BabeYrMyReligion_Essay1.pdf
For the opening reception, Artspace was turned into a gay bar for one night on the opening reception of September 12
Exhibition documentation by Eli Nolet
This project would like to acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council, Superframe, and Ptbo-Nogo Pride in the creation and presentation of this work.
Virtual Artist talk and exhbition tour: