symphony for a fraying body - Saoirse Amira Anis

This chapbook is presented as part of Dundee-based artist Saoirse Amira Anis’ solo exhibition at DCA, titled 'symphony for a fraying body'. It contains newly commissioned texts by writer, publisher and curator Sarah Shin, and artist, writer and curator Jamie Donald. The exhibition marks the first major UK show by Anis, whose practice encompasses sculpture, performance, photography, film, writing and drawing and prioritises radical care, informality and empathy. Anis’ work is informed by Black queer literature, her personal ancestry and her own body as it moves through the world. She incorporates bodily knowledge and care into each facet of her work, considering the ways in which the body holds ancestral and lived memories.