Tom Denize

Gardening in Sodom

Tom Denize’s practice spans installation, video, and photography, creating affective spaces that oscillate between materiality and transcendence. Rooted in queer theology and temporality, their work examines how belief, desire, and embodiment intersect within and beyond systems of visibility. Through gestures of devotion, cruising, and dance, Denize explores how the sacred might surface in new forms—how intimacy and faith can coexist as acts of resistance and renewal. Their practice is guided by the tension between revelation and concealment, where images become thresholds rather than representations, invoking felt rather than seen experiences. Drawing on affect theory and auto-theoretical methods, Denize’s work materialises states of becoming that resist closure, offering queer time as a site of potentiality, communion, and transformation—a mode of inhabiting the world attuned to what flickers at the edge of knowing.