Goswell Road

Goswell Road was founded in 2016 by artists Coralie Ruiz and Anthony Stephinson in their studio in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. It has since evolved into what its founders refer to as a “living, evolving work.”

Last year, they separated their publishing activities, inaugurating Road House, their dedicated publishing house. They will showcase several new Road House titles at the fair alongside historical Goswell Road publications, merchandise, and artist editions related to previous exhibitions at the space.

During the fair, Goswell Road is presenting a solo project with Dutch artist Levi Van Gelder in their space located at 22 rue de l’Échiquier, 75010 Paris. Levi uses performance, writing, sculpture, and video to investigate fanfiction as a tool for queer resistance and counterfactual re-appropriation of stories and fictions. Levi offers a queer, subversive, post-historical drag reinterpretation of Ötzi the Iceman, reimagining the 5,300-year-old Neolithic mummy as Ötza, a fanfiction entrepreneur, who Levi will write, perform, and create as. The book, which is a collection of Ötza’s latest fanfiction, will be sold at the fair.

They will also collaborate with another exhibitor at the fair, Queer Street Press, during the weekend, to present a solo presentation of photographer Kim Jakobsen Tô in a hidden space at 33 rue d’Enghien, 75010.

On Saturday 6 June at 14:30, Goswell Road founders, Coralie Ruiz and Anthony Stephinson, will join writer, critic, and curator Marie Canet in conversation. The conversation will provide an insight into ten years of independent practice—as well as the forms of continuity, care, and resistance that support it.