Leilah Babirye, DW Fitzpatrick, Siobhan Liddell, Tabboo!, Frederick Weston, Tseng Kwong Chi, Graham Durward, Eve Fowler, Richard Haines, Jimmy Paul, Matt Savitsky, David Yarritu

Leilah Babirye,​​ Tseng Kwong Chi, Graham Durward, DW Fitzpatrick, Eve Fowler, Richard Haines, Siobhan Liddell, Jimmy Paul, Matt Savitsky, Tabboo!, Frederick Weston, and David Yarritu

Let Go or Be Dragged explores the visual, conceptual, and political language of drag, bringing together an idiosyncratic group of emerging, established, and outsider intergenerational artists working in a range of media and disciplines: photography, drawing, painting, and sculpture.

These artists use diverse strategies and gestures—playful, irreverent, poetic, or earnest—to challenge binary and hierarchical conventions of identity. Our salon-style installation juxtaposes artworks to provoke unexpected relationships. The artworks and their subjects offer themselves up to the viewer seductively, satirically, in defiance—reclaiming power in the process.

In conjunction with this presentation, Gordon Robichaux curated Contemporary Drag for NADA Presents. The program includes performances, video screenings in collaboration with Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), panel discussions, curated books with Peradam press, and a special collection of artist collaborations with Print All Over Me for NADA X PAOM.