Our history and our lived experience is our gift to the world.
– Joan Nestle, Restricted Country
We/Us - roman manfredi
We/Us is the UK’s first visual art project celebrating the undocumented presence of Butches and Studs from working class backgrounds. Using film photography as a medium, Roman Manfredi explores intergenerational female masculinity through the structures of class and race within the British landscape. This extraordinary new solo exhibition by lens based artist Manfredi, co-curated by Ingrid Pollard, will be on show at Space Station Sixty-Five, 9 March – 3 June 2023. No ordinary portrait show, Manfredi presents forty-one framed photographs with an audio installation taken from interviews with the participants.
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ella s. mills contributed to the development of this project and talking on corners is very proud to support and promote manfredi's extraordinary practice.
ROMAN, KINGS CROSS, LONDON. PHOTO: JAYNE TAYLOR
Vice Magazine – Powerful Photos of Butch Lesbian Identity (March 2023)
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Diva Magazine – We/Us is the UK’s first visual art project celebrating butches and studs from working class backgrounds (March 2023)
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The Guardian – ‘It’s a reclamation of masculinity’: the rebirth of butch culture (March 2023)
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The Independent – Why being butch is part of the female experience (March 2023)
listen to some excerpts from roman's We/Us interviews here