Cool to Cry documents a small queer community starting in 2020 when the world closed down and they lost the usual meeting places and community. Project began with Marin, Herman and Bendik being locked down in a small apartment making dinner, trying to work, throwing small parties, playing with gender roles, and finding new ways to exist. As the world opened up, the lockdown relationships and bonds became even more important. The project continues in 2022 with new portraits of close friends shot in Marin’s bed where she created a space for sharing intimacies and vulnerabilities among close circle of friends. Enlarged images are printed on textiles and installed in a row to recreate an intimate connection point with the audience that is positioned in direct bodily and tactile proximity with the photographed protagonists.
