Shameless Light is an ongoing performance that invites lesbian and queer identified women and non-binary people to read love letters they have written, under red neon lights. Shameless Light was begun in 2016 in Carizzozo, New Mexico after the US election. Since then, letters have been written, and read, by community members at the Wexner Center in Columbus, OH, Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY, Leslie Lohman Project Space in NY, Athena Grand, Athens, OH, TCU Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Texas and UIC, Chicago, IL.
Shameless Light privileges love as a generative, unruly and potentially radical act. Shameless Light was installed in the street facing window of Mimosa House gallery in January 2023, and simultaneously installed at Camden Arts Centre café. We would like to thank the London letter writers who so generously wrote to love, desire, community under the red, neon funnel of light. Link to video document of letters here. This work was commissioned by Camden Arts Center.
Gabriela Cala-Lesina
Christa Holka
bones tan jones
Fa-Zah Raha
Mary W
