Portraits of Recovery is delighted to be representing Harold Offeh with Let’s Talk about Chemsex at this year’s The Manchester Contemporary.
The Manchester Contemporary brings the most exciting, leading contemporary art to Manchester.
Led by international artist Harold Offeh, over the past year, Let’s Talk about Chemsex has developed into a series of workshops, with a group of individuals working collaboratively to create and produce music, informed by their lived experience of sex on chems and, more broadly, themes of desire, intimacy, respect, and consent within the LGBTQ+ community.
The two tracks, Anticipation <—>Anxiety and A Warm Hug, are released as a 12-inch, double A-side vinyl EP (Let’s Talk about Chemsex Presents).
Let’s Talk About Chemsex is inspired by American hip-hop group Salt N Pepa’s singles Let’s Talk about Sex and Let’s Talk about AIDS; tracks which dramatically destigmatised the discussion of sex and desire in popular culture. Let’s Talk About Chemsex seeks to map and survey a diverse range of Chemsex experiences without guilt, shame, or stigma
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Artworks
Let’s Talk About Chemsex is a multimedia artwork available as an artist original, artist multiple, special edition pink/purple marble, or standard edition purple. Prices are available on request via Info@portraitsofrecovery.org.uk and are available on Bandcamp.
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Artist Biography
Harold Offeh is an artist working in a range of media including performance, video, photography, learning and social arts practice. Offeh is interested in the space created by the inhabiting or embodying of histories. He employs humour to confront the viewer with historical narratives and contemporary culture.
Offeh has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally including Tate Britain and Tate Modern, South London Gallery, Turf Projects, London, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Wysing Art Centre, Studio Museum Harlem, New York, MAC VAL, France, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark and Art Tower Mito.
Commissioned by Portraits of Recovery and developed in collaboration and partnership with Manchester Art Gallery, Brighter Sound, and producer Niall O’Conghaile aka The Niallist.
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