May You of a Better Future

May You of a Better Future brings together the work of four artists who embrace reparative practices in an exhibition eploring thremes relating to Section 28 and its legacies.

Holly Buckle’s work creates a safe space to piece together LGBTQIA+ history, to reflect upon it, to lay with it, to open up a conversation and educate ourselves in relation to it. Sunil Gupta’s series ‘Pretended’ Family Relationships focuses on the gay and lesbian communities’ vigorous response to Section 28 at the time it came into force, each photograph a document of love and a reminder of the power in protest. Emil Lombardo’s work, concerned with body politics and gender, representation and visibility of dissident identities, counters the legacy of the legislation in our collective unconscious. Whilst Joseph Wilson’s film reimagines the lives of queer people in the late 80s and 90s had we instead been banished from the UK under Section 28, the work’s title Il-Widna referencing sound mirrors developed between the World Wars, significant in the film as they amplify our collective queer voice.