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Photographer Drasko Bogdanovic’s Submission (part of the Contact Festival) is going to be unlike any art show you’ve ever attended.

“We’re turning the gallery opening upside down,” Bogdanovic says. “When you walk in a gallery space, it’s always white walls, it’s always brightly lit, there’s always that kind of chichi cocktail music going on. We’re turning that upside down. We’re having a dark room. The walls are going to be painted black, and people are going to walk in with flashlights.”

And what will visitors discover under their flashlights’ beams? Given Bogdanovic’s previous work, it seems safe to assume it will have something to do with naked men. “It’s going to be a whole range of nudity, full-frontal, sexual acts,” he laughs. “The good stuff!”

What gallery would agree to such an unconventional exhibit? Actually, no gallery did. Instead, Submission is going to be presented at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, a rather untraditional space for an art show. “Buddies in Bad Times is not a gallery space, so it was a challenge,” Bogdanovic says. “They are not designed to exhibit art . . . But on the other hand, it’s a theatre, and we can create whatever we want in there.”