In 2017, the Northern England city of Hull received UK City of Culture status. Ensuing investment transformed Humber Street, one of the city’s old warehousing thoroughfares, into what could be described as a twenty-first-century fantasy of a Victorian cobbled harbor area quite distinct from the banal surrounding cityscape. A similar mild discord was evident in Jamie Crewe’s exhibition “Solidarity & Love,” which focused on contemporary folk culture and nonbinary identity.

The show was divided into two spaces—a darkened video room and a daylit space containing sculpture and print—with works in both