Wild – Transgender and the Communities of Desire is an international group exhibition that draws together recent artworks dealing with questions and challenges of transgender life and communities, which don’t necessarily present an inquiry into the complexities of transgenderism, but rather use transgenderism as a perspective to frame and narrate current human (societal) conditions.

Inspired by scholar Jack Halberstam’s concept of “wild,” the exhibition looks at how gender complexities are forever challenging the binary mode of societal organization. The exhibition claims that these complexeties should not be narrated as “problems” or “difficulties,” but rather as a wild range of human possibilities. As Halberstam reminds us, the notion of wild—reclaimed from its colonial historical context—in relation to societal models offers “different narratives of what a life can be like in general.” A powerful and potent critique can thus emerge from the margins of society, in this case through transgender voices, strategies, and perspectives. Many of the artworks in Wild restage the possibilities of envisioning a different future in the present and on the ruins of its impoverished political imagination.

Most of the works in Wild – Transgender and the Communities of Desire critique heteronormative societal forces and at the same time clearly envision the potentials of other kinds of communities and intimacies that can provide a more enriching overall human journey, not just for people who are positioned on the margins of society. The future communities imagined by the works included in Wild are based on friendship and mutual support, on shared desires and singularities, instead of competition, survival, and the collective forces of production.