“Although visibility helps redress a representational inequality, it does nothing on its own to achieve redistributive justice,” writes Shon Faye in The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice. The wider text is one of three works of non-fiction to directly inform Saints and Sinners, a new exhibition at Guts Gallery in London, curated by director and founder Ell Pennick. “Literature is like a haven. When I read books by queer people, I just feel so safe, understood and validated,” shares Pennick, who was similarly affected by Carmen Maria Machado’s memoir, In the Dream House, as well as Audre Lorde’s The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House. “Literature goes hand in hand with art. People sometimes forget that and separate it, but it’s so intertwined.”
The defiant new queer art show fuelled by ‘disgust at the world’
Zoe Whitfield, Dazed, 9 Jun 2023
