Alexander D'Agostino
Alexander DβAgostino is a Baltimore-based interdisciplinary artist and independent researcher whose work reclaims and reimagines Queer histories through performance, visual art, and ritual. Drawing from archives, myth, and personal experience, he creates immersive spaces to honor and posthumously liberate marginalized figures. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and featured in publications including Art of the Grimoire and Emergency Index.
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Photo credit: Peggy Ryan for Folger Shakespeare Library
the Book of Sodom: A queer codex
Artist Book: Wood cover, paint/mixed media/collage, 17β x 25β x 4β
The Book of Sodom is Grimoire of spell, invocations, ritual, and Queer mythology. Written in "the witches alphabet" or "Theban" is both a manual of instruction as well as a spell itself. During its initiation ritual I invited people to write their own spells for me and my Queer witch-siblings to cast and tend to. Part of the ongoing ritual of the book is to write these spells in the witches alphabet throughout the pages. Sometime for clarity, other time in chaotic scribbles that build up layers upon layers of Queer consciousness. The book has been rebound once, and continues to play an active role in my daily life as well as a theme and source of magic for my overall artist practice, in a project I call Queer Codex.