In late 2020, scientists studying the atmosphere of Venus announced the surprising – and controversial – discovery of phosphine, a chemical that, on Earth, is produced primarily by living organisms.

The revelation could mean there’s lifeforms drifting among Venusian clouds. Real or not, the idea of Life on Venus releases all sorts of queer possibilities.

Forget Life On Mars. IT WAS VENUS ALL ALONG! 

YOUR DESIRE celebrates our extraterrestrial proclivities - the strange, beautiful biological mystery and extreme atmospheres of Queer life: here on earth and beyond.

Nicknamed Earth’s 'evil twin', Venus is roughly the same mass as Earth. Our closest planetary neighbour, spins in the opposite direction to us; forever in retrograde, forever ravaged by runaway greenhouse effects.

From Xenomorphs to Xenofeminists. From the odes and urns of ‘lost’ alien oceans to astral projections protesting hyper-capitalist space colonisers. Artists BLECK, Rosell Flatley, Jay Gardener (NSW) and Isabella Maria Foster (TAS) explore the sulphuric, speculative signs, symbols and signals from our celestial doppelganger.