For decades, Irish institutions concealed women’s suffering through silence. Now, contemporary artists are confronting these traumatic histories to foster awareness and healing
James Lawrence Slattery is a writer and Lecturer in Film Studies at UWE Bristol. Their book, Taking Back Desire: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Queerness and Neoliberalism on Screen, is out now with Routledge.
At The Approach, London, the artist’s latest series dissects classical Hollywood headshots and film stills, leaving only the ghostly outlines of absent stars