'Moral Panic,' 2024, digitalised version with text virtually overlaid. 1 minute 31 seconds.
'Moral Panic' was constructed by projecting a short film over text screen-printed onto fabric. This piece was inspired by witnessing an influx of online transphobia and hate speech by UK politicians around the same time as multiple murders of trans people happened in the USA and UK.
Mundane clips of day-to-day lives of queer people, celebrating the body, and experiences within it, are contrasted with prose expressing the fear and exhaustion of repeatedly witnessing your existence becoming a social debate, and the suffering that occurs as a result of these debates being weaponised and turned into moral panics.
Exhibited at 'Mismatch,' Reading School of Art Gallery, February 2024.
Above: Documentation of film exhibited at 'Mismatch,' in February 2024, demonstrating projection of videography over screen-printed text. 170 x 250 meters.
Below: Digital stills from 'Moral Panic' pictured.
Above (left): 'Moral Panic,' text screen printed over calico fabric in red. (Right) an image of the work being viewed at the 'Mismatch' exhibition.
