Sanctuary
Exhibition + Film
2024
16mm to digital, 24 mins
San Mei Gallery presents Sam Ashby: Sanctuary
This exhibition features a new film commission, Sanctuary, exploring queer spirituality and utopian sexualities through the figure of Peter Purusha Androgyne Larkin (1934–1988).
Larkin was a North-American Catholic monk who became a notable early gay filmmaker before moving to San Diego to establish himself as a cosmic-erotic mystic. Shot on 16mm, Sanctuary offers a portrait of Larkin in absentia, weaving together the voices of his friends, lovers and those who have found inspiration in his work, evoking the life of a complex man who seems at once ahead of his time and yet inextricable from it.
San Mei Gallery, London
27 September – 16 November 2024
San Mei Gallery︎︎︎
Camera: Sam Ashby & Mariah Garnett
Editor: Pablo Mazzolo
Sound: Joe Campbell
Music: Leslie Deere
Featuring: Ron Athey, Guy Baldwin, Ganymede Cupbearer, Revé Douglas, Jack Fritscher, Hunter Hargraves, Mark Hemry, Rob Hopcke, Guy Seiler
Commissioned by San Mei Gallery, with support from Arts Council England and the Arts & Humanities Research Council
San Mei Gallery presents Sam Ashby: Sanctuary
This exhibition features a new film commission, Sanctuary, exploring queer spirituality and utopian sexualities through the figure of Peter Purusha Androgyne Larkin (1934–1988).
Larkin was a North-American Catholic monk who became a notable early gay filmmaker before moving to San Diego to establish himself as a cosmic-erotic mystic. Shot on 16mm, Sanctuary offers a portrait of Larkin in absentia, weaving together the voices of his friends, lovers and those who have found inspiration in his work, evoking the life of a complex man who seems at once ahead of his time and yet inextricable from it.
San Mei Gallery, London
27 September – 16 November 2024
San Mei Gallery︎︎︎
Camera: Sam Ashby & Mariah Garnett
Editor: Pablo Mazzolo
Sound: Joe Campbell
Music: Leslie Deere
Featuring: Ron Athey, Guy Baldwin, Ganymede Cupbearer, Revé Douglas, Jack Fritscher, Hunter Hargraves, Mark Hemry, Rob Hopcke, Guy Seiler
Commissioned by San Mei Gallery, with support from Arts Council England and the Arts & Humanities Research Council