Courtney Webster and Meg Turner’s project PATRICIDE interrogates cultural tropes of the ideal body by centering a queer person of color (Webster) as an heroic or swoon-worthy protagonist. The artists make visible an alternate lexicon wherein the erased and invisible become seen, empowered, and celebrated.

“PATRICIDE has always been about questioning dominant narratives in the media and understanding them as the mechanism that deliberately manufacture who is legitimate and entitled to dignity and power. These narratives impact the ways we live, develop our identities, and ultimately figure out how to exist in communities. This photographic collaboration has always been something that we saw evolving as the conversations around white supremacy, patriarchy, and gender grow more and more urgent and harder for even mainstream institutions to ignore.”

 –Meg Turner and Courtney Webster

“CHASING LIGHT has allowed Bianca and I to self-direct our visibility, investigate the representation of queer identity and non-normative bodies, and explore the shifting role of image-maker and subject. Our relationship with the work stems directly from our individual and shared experiences with disability, chronic illness, and non-normative queer identity. Now, we wish to turn this lens outward and offer experiences for non-artists and creative individuals who identify at the intersection of LGBTQ+, non-binary, and chronically ill or disabled identity to see themselves through self-directed documentary photographs and the support of guided workshops. We aim to advance social justice through this work by giving others the opportunity to self-direct their narratives.”