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Like Tracey Emin’s “My Bed.” this “Secret Gay Box” will encapsulate a moment in the life of an individual—but rather than doing this through a single object or work, it will use a variety of works in different mediums from different times to create the ethos of adolescent formation; a time characterized by flux and uncertainty. It will be a powerful comment on the construction of identity through collected, foraged, sometimes fiercely protected influences.

This is how the show’s curator, John Wolf, describes his childhood: “Growing up in an evangelical christian home, being gay was a sin and …