Sam Keelan
Lives and works in London
Sam Keelan, Heard it through the walls, 2022
Sam Keelan uses photography, moving image and writing to tell gay surreal narratives and ideas around individualism, care and community. These narratives dissect day-to-day connections to one another, then transform the benign aspects of these ideas to create queer doppelgängers of dominant middle class ideologies, often reinserted back into domestic spaces.
Shot in a dated hotel room, Tired as the Land presents a silent durational film of a tender and absurd scene of two male figures – one human, one a human-sized hot water bottle – embracing and sleeping in simple domesticity. Keelan uses a staple of domestic comfort to give physical and playful form to the politics of care.
Sam Keelan has presented work at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery (University of Leeds, 2023-24), TJ Boulting, (London, 2023) and Quench Gallery, (Margate, 2022)
Jerwood Survey III
Links :
@sam_keelan
