Claude Cahun’s photographic works are today among the most celebrated of the surrealist canon.
This exhibition is organised by Susan Demuth, translator of Cancelled Confessions, a book which reveals Cahun to also be a major surrealist writer and pioneering radical queer theorist, almost a century ahead of her time.
Cancelled Confessions is a remarkably prescient work, with deep resonance for
contemporary practices and discourses around queer ecologies, anti-fascism, autotheory, gender expansiveness, and trans liberation. A new generation of readers is
eagerly discovering Cahun.
‘Cahun was a pioneer of gender-bending role-playing… eerily ahead of her time, she has attracted an almost cult-like following. I am a huge fan.’ David Bowie, 2007.
