"Always in Joy": Bex Wade and the politics of presence at SLQS Gallery

Victoria Comstock-Kershaw, Fetch London, May 22, 2025

"With care, honesty, and deep accountability, Wade’s lens doesn’t just record—it witnesses. And in doing so, it makes a claim: that visibility without responsibility is violence, and that the radical gesture is not exposure, but consent. That to look with love — and to be looked at with love — is perhaps the most enduring act of protest we have. In the end, Wade says, photography isn’t just about showing something. It’s about reminding us to feel it."

 

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