Biological

Curated by Vanessa Perez Winder

The Frank Ratchye Project Space is pleased to present Biological, a solo exhibition by Root Division Studio Artist Jasper Wilde. 

In this new and on-going body of work,  Wilde presents a series of stark, desolate landscapes that collapse the boundary between external terrain and internal experience. Varying in both media and degrees of abstraction, each painting feels less like a representation of place and more like a psychic topography: visual records of physical and emotional distance, battles for self-preservation, and the negotiation of familial estrangement. 

At the core of the exhibition is Wilde’s interrogation of the perceived rigidity of the “biological” and its weaponization—particularly against queer and trans people—as they reclaim the term as something inherently fluid, evolutionary, and emergent. Through this lens, Wilde’s works map a zone of transformation, a space between personal inquiry, political refusal, and imaginative possibilities within a world that often demands our silence and conformity.