Artist field note

Salman Toor

Queer intimacy enters the old-master room.

The Star by Salman Toor
Art Institute of Chicago · Public domainSource ↗

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The Star

2019

A performer is watched and illuminated. Visibility carries pleasure and exposure at once.

The five in one idea

Toor makes queer brown life feel both contemporary and already entitled to the history of painting.