Delightful Sempahores
Zach Hill / Coco Clockner / Zante Moore with programming by Matt Morris 

June 12th - July 24th, 2026

Opening reception: June 12th

Switch-Hook Projects opens on June 12th hosted by Co-Prosperity 

Zach Hill, Coco Clockner, and Zante Moore with programming by Matt Morris 

A semaphore is an apparatus for long distance signaling, a lamp, a flag, a smoke signal. 

From the Greek sema, sign, and phoros, bearer. The works in Delightful Semaphores are sign-bearers. They employ, interrogate and metabolize the signs of identity formation and legibility. An acute awareness of how signs can be employed to signal or disguise, to critique or adorn is not incidental to queer life but innate to it. It is this literacy, built through necessity and desire in equal measure, that is deployed in the work of Zach Hill, Coco Clockner, Zante Moore. Delightful Semaphores is surrealist and pragmatic, neither hopeful nor despairing.

Zach Hill's drawings dance and sway, boundaries becoming containers for color. The sculptural frames that pull them off the wall are adorned with found objects whose double entendre carry a bawdy and knowing wit. His video-sculpture, Ultimate Avenger, a frankenstein of lighting rigs, translucent casts and looping videos does not represent queer nightlife so much as collapse its constituent parts. 

Coco Klockner’s wall sculptures are an uncanny marriage between the symbolic and the strange. Playful cartoon motifs take on a detached and quiet energy as they sink into industrial carpeting, their lines burnt in resembling the brand of a hot iron. Brass punctures foam with an organic yet alien form. A plastic love heart adorns one of the carpet panels. Imagery that might otherwise read as girlish or decorative, rendered here without sentiment.

Zante Moore assembles a world of familiar images, abandoned memes and emojis of an internet culture that replenishes itself indefinitely. They are revived in wheatpasted collages interrupting a large-scale airbrush landscape. A field of sunflowers, the final resting place for what once circulated as shared shorthand for mood, identity and communication. 

Matt Morris will present a fragrance workshop in conjunction with the exhibition. Participants in this free programming will be introduced to ways that scent has been utilized as a social signifier for queer communities and as an approach to defining and caring for non-normative conceptions of self—from lesbianism in the 1940s to gender fluid fantasies of a glamorous boudoir; from Brooklyn warehouse parties to Berlin night clubs; Parisian brothels to Las Vegas casino simulacra; Britney Spears fandoms to the signature perfume of trans nightlife superstar Amanda Lepore. This exploration will examine the ways perfumes have defied gender codes across periods and articulated desire beyond the explicitly visible or named. 

Artist Bios:

Zante Moore is an artist from Tulsa, Oklahoma. They’re currently based out of Chicago. IL. Moore received their BFA in Photography from the Kansas City Art Institute, and received an interdisciplinary MFA from the University of Illinois Chicago. They create large installations and worldbuild through airbrush, photography, collage, technology, and computer games. Their work has been exhibited at Elastic arts, Gallery400 and ingrown gallery. 

Coco Klockner is an artist and writer. She is the author of the speculative novella K-Y (Genderfail Press, 2019), and her essays have appeared in Texte zur Kunst, Spike Art Magazine, Disclaimer/Liquid Architecture, and The Whitney Review. Klockner’s sound work has been included in Musik Installationen Nürnberg (2022) as well as MoMA PS1’s Greater New York (2026), and she has had solo exhibitions at Silke Lindner, New York; Bad Water, Knoxville, TN; stop-gap projects, Columbia, MO; The Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA; and SculptureCenter, New York.

Zach Hill is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator working between sculpture, drawing, and moving image. He has been awarded the Mary L. Nohl Fellowship, Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship, two Illuminate the Arts Grants, and a Ruth Arts Mary L. Nohl Alumni Award along with a full fellowship to Vermont Studio Center and has attended other residencies such as Bunker Projects, RAIR, Elsewhere Museum, and Stove Works. His work has been exhibited at The Haggerty Museum of Art, Flux Factory on Governors Island, The Luminary, Peep Projects, Fjord, Grizzly Grizzly, All Street Gallery, and VisArts among other locations. Alongside these more traditional venues, he also creates nightlife visuals for various queer parties such as Sonidero, Virtues, and LYLAS and has completed multiple sculptural commissions for Honcho Campout.

Matt Morris is an artist, perfumer, and writer based in Chicago. Morris has presented artwork internationally including Andrew Kreps, Margot Samel, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York; Musée de la Fraise and Ruschman, Berlin, Germany; Netwerk Aalst, Aalst, Belgium; Krabbesholm Højskole, Skive, Denmark; / Slash, San Francisco, CA; Espace Maurice, Montreal, Quebec; DePaul Art Museum, Ruschman, and LVL3, Chicago, IL; Mary + Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL; Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL; and the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH. Morris has contributed to Femme Art Review, Fragrantica, Heart Note Press, Everyone Is a Girl, VISCOSE, QED, artforum.com, Art Papers, ARTnews, Flash Art, and X-TRA—additional writing appears in numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. Morris is a transplant from southern Louisiana who holds a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati and earned an MFA in Art Theory + Practice from Northwestern University, as well as a Certificate in Gender + Sexuality Studies. Morris is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.