For her first exhibition, Unisexe, at Art : Concept, Nina Childress signs her history of desire in painting. Here, boys and girls with long seventies’ hair, rockers, and groupies are all united by sex. Nina Childress depicts this still virgin moment, when characters fantasize about one another in a unisex relationship of mirroring and projection. There are no scenes of concerts—instead, her depictions are of the backstage. These rockers and groupies are isolated, each one portrayed on his/her canvas, in a music-poster situation. It is a matter of pose for a sexual distance. They do not have sex. Not yet. They look at each other, desire in their eyes, which are very wide open.

Text by Laurent Goumarre

Unisexe is on view through July 22 at Art : Concept, 4 PASSAGE SAINTE-AVOYE 75003 PARIS, FRANCE