Artist: Zachari Logan
Curator: Mohsen Ahi Andy
Zachari Logan’s practice delves into the complexities of queer identity, embodiment, and the natural world. He is known for using his own body as a site of discovery—rendered through self-portraiture or subtly embedded in overgrown ditches and dense botanical scenes. His work examines the layered histories of place and the ways queer bodies have been marginalized within them. On The Green Grass, With Sighing and Delight is the artist’s major solo presentation in Northern Alberta, featuring a collection of drawings, ceramic sculptures, prints, and installations that together create interconnected environments where body, desire, and nature meet— inviting viewers to rethink the connections between human experience, cultural traces, and ecological presence.
The exhibition maps both Logan’s most iconic works, in which the body and the idea of embodiment in landscape intertwine to explore queer experience, and his more recent investigations, in which the body is no longer directly represented, becoming instead part of an expanded ecology of relations. In these works, Logan proposes porous boundaries between human and more-than-human life, suggesting that identity and environment are mutually constitutive. Framed as an uncharted wild garden, the exhibition offers an engaging experience that balances large-scale works with smaller drawings and ceramic pieces, inviting viewers to navigate a space where the familiar and the unknown coexist. Drawing on literary and historical visual references, from medieval tapestries and classical mythology to the artist’s landscape-based observations, the exhibition explores ideas of embodiment in a poetic yet critically resonant way, blending myth, memory, and prairie landscape into an immersive experience.
On The Green Grass, With Sighing and Delight challenges audiences to consider how our existence interacts with landscapes, histories, and mythologies. The exhibition aims to transform the gallery into an inviting environment, one where queer presence, ecological consciousness, and the imagination of landscape converge to create spaces of reflection, transformation, and resilience.
– Mohsen Ahi Andy
