pleasuremonger

Daze Jefferies

Guest Curator: Emily Critch

January 23 - March 28 2026

Newfoundland’s long history of prostitution is intimately connected to oceanic migration, resource extraction, and trade. In pleasuremonger, Daze Jefferies’ vision of sex worker justice responds to archival embodiments and rural touches, evoking possibilities of intergenerational love, choice, and regard at the water’s edge.

Comprised of sculpture, textiles, prints, oral histories, erasure poetry, time-based media, and regionally specific historical documents, this exhibition imagines how the presence of sex workers can be salvaged from archives and felt through watery forms, including whore’s eggs, beach roses, fish, nets, and mermaids.

Acknowledging the tenacity of sex worker foremothers, and seeking connection within and against the historical record, pleasuremonger offers alternative practices of recognition and resistance across time.

Image Credit: Daze Jefferies, tenderable, digitally manipulated scanner photography, 2024