Tender To The Flame

Tender To The Flame highlights expanded notions of what queer and trans healthcare can be.

At a time of heightened rhetoric against healthcare access for trans youth, Levin Ifko's (BFA ’22, Media Arts) installation Tender To The Flame highlights expanded notions of what queer and trans healthcare can be and how our connections with one another can pose a radical shift in how we choose to care for ourselves and those around us.

Contrasting the clinical with the sensual, Ifko utilises personal photography, translucent tapestry, and visible mending. Drawing on their lived experiences accessing healthcare as trans youths into adulthood and shared knowledge from trans writers, artists and friends who have guided them along the way, Ifko’s work aims to honour trans livelihood, companionship and pleasure by addressing community networks of trans protection and care.