Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art

Political Letters

A photograph of a dark woodland. A figure dressed in white clothes is walking along a rocky path

Political Letters

Val presented a series of elaborately-staged photo works around the theme of women in philosophy. This focused on the construction of cultural and gender designations, which suggest invisibility from the mainstream of perceived knowledge. Val's interest in humanity, and the production of such knowledge, allows the metaphoric and sometimes surreal images to give a voice to women's work and their contribution to philosophy and enlightened thought.