Show Me Devotion

 

Off Hours, CounterPulse’s spring 2025 curators in residence, are excited to announce Show Me Devotion, a two-person exhibition featuring new works by Gericault De La Rose and Adrian Clutario.

 

About Show Me Devotion 

A freer, queerer world is not only possible; it already exists. It is slippery and elusive, but you can find it if you know the right places to look. For many, these moments of authenticity can only exist in dark and inconspicuous margins, spaces filled with ghosts—our blood relatives and ideological ancestors, as well as the ghosts of other possible futures, spirits and demons expelled from other realms. These dingy, shrouded spaces are fertile grounds for a type of spirituality where symbols of shame are repurposed into something emancipatory, where the demons and deities once expelled can stay, revel, party. In Show Me Devotion, artists Adrian Clutario and Gericault De La Rose relish in the margins, creating communal sanctuaries that imagine spirituality as a tool for queer and trans connection across realms.

 

Reclaiming icons from Filipino folklore and the Catholic Church, the artists invite their community from the past, present and figure to inhabit a liminal space that centers the queer experience as a central religious motif. Using materials more often found at a rave than a church, the artists summon their ancestors with sequins, leather, rope, vinyl, and other shiny, slick, sticky materials. Rather than hiding in the shadows for survival, Clutario and De La Rose’s demonized specters are knowable, even confrontational. Laden in rhinestones and capiz shells, they beckon out to us, leading the way towards alternative futures. The ghosts in the Balete tree have a kiki; the rosary glows in the dark on the dance floor. By creating communion with these queer demons, Clutario and De La Rose invite them to stay and seep into that which is known, joining forces to resist the erasure of queer and trans bodies in the material world. 

 

About the Artists

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adrian Clutario is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Oakland, CA, since 2014. Their practice involves a variety of techniques—sculpture, installation, furniture, performance, and fashion. Clutario’s queer Filipinx-American identity informs their work, imagining and creating different possibilities of our heteronormative and colonized surroundings. Deeply utilizing drag and craft sensibilities, Clutario exaggerates and blurs the lines of design, space, and familial lineage – striving to heal around diasporic generational trauma. Adrian Clutario’s work has been exhibited nationally. They received their BFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 2012.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gericault De La Rose plays with histories of spectacles and practices of intimacy in order to regain a sense of bodily autonomy. She draws upon Philippine folklore and cultural traditions, interweaving them with art historical painting compositions and sculptural tropes to form her work. Within a “post”-colonial world that perpetually reinforces the collective amnesia of Queer, Trans, and Indigenous narratives, she intentionally creates pieces positioned to disrupt a Eurocentric Art Historical Canon.

 

About the Curators

Off Hours is a nomadic curatorial project dedicated to spotlighting emerging and underrepresented Bay Area artists through experimental exhibitions. Led by Katherine Jemima Hamilton, Shaelyn Hanes, and Ebti, Off Hours presents artist-driven exhibitions that result from dialogue developed during studio visits, ongoing conversation, and collaborative writing practices.

 

The exhibition opens softly on May 10th and will be celebrated hard and loud on Thursday, June 5th from 5-7 pm.

 

The exhibition will be on view in CounterPulse’s lobby through August 31st.