July 9 – August 30, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 9th 6-9pm  

rel·i·quar·y
/ˈreləˌkwerē/
Noun
a container for holy relics.

wild project is proud to present HAPPY ACCIDENTS, a solo exhibition of 45 polaroid works by artist and director Rob Roth. Friends, lovers, muses, and metropolitan texture in locations spanning Brazil, Paris, Madrid, and New York City, are presented as singular sacred objects of Roth’s private life. Some are decorated as shrines, embellished with gold leaf, ink, and glitter. Shot over a decade, the series marks Roth’s most personal presentation of his photographic practice to date. 

Drawing from goth, camp, drag, and pagan influence, Roth contends with the preservation of the everyday as relic. He juxtaposes the erotic and flamboyant with the quiet and mystical and asserts a commitment to ritual, analog immediacy, and the documentation of ethereality.

Subjects include Parker Posey in a Paris hotel, Ruth Negga in a Whitechapel alleyway, Morgan Spector in the woods, Jenny Runacre backstage at the Alternative Miss World in London, Wayne Kostenbaum at his home in NYC, Majur in Brazil, and China on Fire Island. These are interspersed with images of queer intimacy and urban decay: plugs, portals, lyrical fragments, and obstructed environments. Roth’s creative collaboration with Blondie weaves throughout, with backstage and BTS portraits of Debbie Harry around the globe.

Please click on the title of each piece for online purchasing.

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